Every few years on Blue Peter, or so it seemed, one of the presenters would go up in an aeroplane and experience what it like to have increasingly low levels of oxygen. Generally it was with the RAF and they would repeat inane puzzles until the low levels of oxygen meant they couldn’t add 1 and 1, remember their name or indeed where they had put the tortoise for its winter hibernation.
I remembered this piece of children’s TV gold when we travelled through the 16.9 Kms of Gotthards Tunnel in Southern Switzerland yesterday. Although I could not remember where I put the tortoise even before we entered the void, I did seem to sense a lack of decent oxygen the further we went and a certain amount of Claustrophobia which was exacerbated by the Italian lorry driver who was trying to get in the back for a cuppa. We came out the other side to blue skies and mesmerising snow topped peaks, which at the moment, crown the deep valley we are camped in.
The camp site sits beside a river and we had a walk down to it before getting the van ready for a cold one (involves covering all the windows in blankets) There is a sign, with a brilliant picture, which says
If the water starts to rise run away quickly. This can happen even in good weather due to the Hydro Electric station.
I don’t think I have seen a sign before which sums up pretty much what you would do if a wall of water was coming towards you!
Update
Update
Hazels Birthday spent in Milan Today, two candles on some ice cream! Milan Cathedral more Gothic than Shelley and Byron on Opium doing a goth video. Amazing city, thank you.
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