It's almost over

Summer is definitely drawing to an end.

Although there are still tourists, there are less children as they return to their home countries to start school. Tourists are more often older people with grown children.

One cool night we smelled smoke from a fire--against the chill, I presume.

No longer can we walk in sunshine well after 21H.

It's been a great summer...lots of friends have come and gone...some have come again.

And there was the surprise yesterday to be grabbed by our Romanian-Canadian friend who is here for two weeks with eight relatives.

We've had great meals.

We've had great trips--Andorra, Geneva, Einsiedeln plus meanderings around the area.

The amount of unbearable heat has been limited.

We done some good writing.

We did some strategic people watching at cafés.

Although we didn't get to the beach as much as we planned, and we still haven't bought bikes, and Rick didn't play golf as he would have liked, it still was a wonderful summer.

Now we are going into travel mode: Canada, the northeast US, Paris, Stuttgart, Amsterdam and a smallish village in Ireland await us. And lovely, lovely home-based Geneva, of course.