It’s been a mixed one here – we’ve had everything from searing heat to days on end of wall-to-wall rain. We’re back in a searing heat phase now, with no rain in sight until the end of the coming week. Lake Constance is over half a metre lower than average for the time of year, better than last year but still not exactly full to the brim. It’s the missing snow melt that does it.
I’ve been out and about with friends and family, though, so for today’s post I’m sharing a few pics from day trips we took. It was 32° the day we went up (in a funicular) to a hilltop above St Gallen, then walked down following the river Steinach.
At this point, the river vanishes underground to pass beneath the cathedral in St Gallen, then continues down to the lake, sometimes above, sometimes below the surface. It was lovely to be in the shade and walking by the water; the light had an eerie, fairytale quality – and all within a few hundred metres of the city.
The following day was 34°, even hotter, and we took the train up the lake to Rorschach. There weren’t many people about, but we went up the hillside here too, in a glass lift this time. A photo stop at the top, then we came down to take refuge in the coolness of the Würth Gallery, where there’s a Wasser Wolke Wind exhibition (water, cloud, wind) as well as some work by Austrian artist Gunther Damisch. (And the day after this, my visitor from Scotland went back to 13° on the west coast…)
More summer travel pics another time. As far as writing goes, I’m working now on the sixth and final Lakeside Hotel book as well as preparing the fourth (Christmas at the Lakeside Hotel) for release in October. I’ll be sharing the cover image in a couple of weeks.
Next week, watch out for a Cover Love post with proofreader Julia Gibbs, who’s chosen two very different covers to talk about. See you then!
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