Familiar Names

As I've mentioned before, sometimes our journeys in Switzerland leave me feeling strangely at home. In particular, there are a lot of familiar surnames I see as we travel around Zurich and the country side. Here are a few that I've captured on film so far.

The first name is Fuchs. We hope this post finds Susannah doing well in St. Louis with Alex and her two boys. I'm guessing Fuchs is more German than Swiss, but northern Switzerland is heavily influenced by its northern neighbor.

Couldn't help thinking about my friend Matt Streiff from New Glarus when I saw the little sign below the number 9 attached to the large ski lift poles in Filzbach. Apparently one of his relatives has done quite well supplying the foundational poles for ski lifts across Switzerland. Reminds me of a Swiss joke I knew as a kid (punchline: yah, but we put our poles all the way into the ground and they left theirs sticking way up in the air).

Finally, Sally's family apparently knew that they had the equivalent of the softdrink Squirt (Squirt might be a midwest brand) selling all over Switzerland.

I'll try to get a few other familiar names on film before I leave.