We suddenly had the day off and Maria suggested this morning we go there, she was in this area before. Yesterday it was not my plan to go to Sankt Moritz today and now while the evening fall, I have been there.
You see what I mean with unintentionally?
From the station there are escalators like in the London metro, which take you uphill and right into VIP street(Via Serlas) with all the shops for the very rich. Guzzi, Vuitton, ?, ?, ? ….. I have already forgotten the names! Maybe it was not that important to me, it’s only shops with ridiculous prizes.
A picture from the Palace hotel in VIP street, but seen from the other side.
It was a little drizzly and chillish, but much warmer than Maloja. Even so some ladies must have been very cold or they just wanted to show off their fur coats. Fortunately Alpine Choughs(Alpenkauw) diverted my attention to the sky. I have seen it several times in the Alps that they form a bubble and fly around for a while like that. Then my eye caught yet another little bird…… crag martins! My first for this season. They do like villages and I have seen them in Aussios for the first time, then in Zinal and now in St Moritz. I wonder about their migration patterns. How far and where do they migrate to? Also the question rises about the supply of insects in the air. Were the Alpine Choughs flying in a bubble like that because there were so many insects in the air?
Maybe it was the moths from all those fur coats?
We had a coffee in the Conditorei Hanselmann from where you can look out over the lake. It looks like it could be an old establishment. We had our sandwiches with, but thought the better of it to eat it in this establishment, we don't really want to be asked to leave. So we went to a cheaper place where we could be warm and eat the sandwichses.
The sun was shining by then and it was quite warm. For a while we just sat in the sun and enjoyed the warmth of the sun and the day.
We decided to walk around the lake to the other side, because Intersoc has a home there in the summer holidays. It's a lovely walk and you can see it by the amount of dogs being led out and people walking just because it was a lovely day. Just before we got to the bridge I saw my first butterfly for the season. Unfortunately I could not see which it was, only that it was dark. Still so much snow and a little sun and the butterfly started flying. With St Moritz situated at the bottom of the mountains and the sun shining on it like that it has it's own climate.
A picture from the other side looking back at St Moritz.
There must have been a frenzy of building blocks of flats at some stage, because on the other side of the lake there were many similar blocks. To make good the dullness of the buildings they have painted them in different colours.
We sat on the lakeside opposite St Moritz and from there we could see the slopes as if covered with ants, people were skiing. There were cable cars going up and down the mountain and mountain trains and people skiing down the mountain. Everything was happening above the town, maybe that’s why I didn’t see any stars!
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