The travels
continue! I am happy to provide a short
post to you all to share where we are and let you know about upcoming events! We
will be spending Shabbat in Interlaken, Switzerland, where we are attending the
7th International Immunoglobulin Congress, a meeting related to the
research that Bruce is involved in. Interlaken, like most of Switzerland, is very
pretty. It is situated between two
lakes, and at the foot hills of a large numbers of mountains in the Swiss Alps.
The famous peaks nearby include Jungfrau
(the “Summit of Europe”) Grindenwald , and at least a dozen others.
Barbara commented that it looked a lot like Aspen, where we used to spend time
in the summer when we lived in Colorado may moons ago. We arrived early Thursday AM after an
overnight flight, and took the train from Zurich to Interlaken. As an example
of how tightly coordinated the Swiss trains are, our Zurich-Berne train was delayed
5 minutes and that did not leave us enough time to catch the connection to Interlaken!
No big deal, the next train came 30 minutes later, right on time!
We caught
up on some sleep and wandered through Interlaken, through the town, and along
the river bank towards the lakes, taking in some picturesque mountain views.
Being a cloudy day, it wasn’t a great time to actually go up to a mountain, but
the area was really beautiful. Friday a
conference day for Bruce, and Barbara had time for catch up and to see the
village. Shabbat will be in the hotel; unlike Lucerne (or Zurich or Geneva)
there are no synagogues here.
What is equally
exciting is what is in store for the next weeks. On Sunday we are leaving for
Israel to attend the wedding of Bilha Fruchter to Chai in Petach Tikvah! That should
be a great celebration. In fact, we flew together with Sylvia and Haim Fruchter.
Then we will be spending time in Netanya and will get to see our new Israeli
grandson Elisha. We will spend part of
Passover with Ariel, Gila and Elisha and Gila’s family. So by this time next week, we’ll have more
news and pictures!
We wish you
all a wonderful Shabbat Shalom!
Mazel tov
to Sylvia, Haim, Yaacov, Ryla, Shilo and Orly Fruchter on the upcoming marriage
of Bilha to Chai!
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