Les Avants, 14/12/13
Your brother sends you the best wishes from here.
Eugen
It's still nice here!If you go to Lake Geneva and want to ride the funicular, you can find out more here. You can also find out more about where you can go to hear Swiss alphorns.
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Wow this funicular must have seen both the World War.
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It looks wonderful in the snow although the mention on the link of it journeying through the daffodils in the spring sounds a sight worth seeing.
ReplyDeleteIf the car is built as a parallelogram to keep things horizontal/vertical on the slope as the images suggests, what happens when the track flattens out at the bottom- does everyone just fall out? Perhaps if everyone uses high altitude drug paraphernalia like the two gents on the second card, level and plumb are not quite so relevant a concept...
ReplyDeleteThere is some leeway, just lie with a regular streetcar going up a hill. Besides that Swiss engineers can do anything.
ReplyDeleteThank you Chritine. I receive your email and thank you for leaving your comments on my blog.
ReplyDeleteYou are such a nice and kind lady.
I love this postcard, especially the writing..ehmmm...i can really recognise the words..
Funiculars are fun!
ReplyDeleteCan anyone guess the original (pre-faded) ink color Eugen used? Jack/Youngstown
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ReplyDeleteI'll have to track down the card and take another look, because I think it may have been written in colored pencil. Pelikan used to make lots of different ink colors for fountain pens and there was one that was lighter than violet.
Very unusual color, Christine, that's why I'm guessing it's a faded version of a more common commercial ink of the era. I use a fountain pen once in a while, but I'm not a big inkophile. J. Herbin, Private Reserve, de Atramentis, Rohrer and Klingner, all make a whole mess of inks for writing, highlighting, art, etc. Plus, there're the inks sold under pen-makers' names: Parker Quink, Pelikan, Sheaffer Skrip, etc. Jack/Y-town
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