We entered the Tube around 9:00 in the morning, a mass of noisy students and a few adults, taking up a section of platform. We had told the teens: "We'll start you on your journey, but you'll have to find your way back. Pay attention." The anxious ones stayed near us, the eager ones studied the green and red and blue and yellow lines on the wall map. "We'll need the Circle Line," one said, and after nodding, we passed the phrase among us like bread, or sweets, so when the train arrived, and the sliding doors opened, we all walked through them with enough nourishment and energy to know where we were going . Later, we stepped out of trams into the high Swiss landscape at Pfingstegg Station. After London, most of the kids didn't even look at the trail map. They just started up. One foot in front of the other, one sore-muscled groan after the other, a collection of revelations. We walked under rock ledges and over small streams. We talked abo...
We are lucky that Scandinavians found there way to such a lovely place as Minnesota. But looking at this makes me wonder why they ever left.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it stunning? I do hope to get to Sweden some day.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely stunning. good find.
ReplyDeleteI would kill for a white winter. I live in the only state in the US that didn't get snow. The grass is always greener I guess. ;)
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