Europe 2022 Trips - Photo Preview 24 - Switzerland: Nufenen Pass & Ticino scenes
Jan 30, 2024 23:24:24 #
lnl wrote:
I can’t imagine letting a 14 year old bike 170 km alone through the mountains. Times surely have changed! Was your grandfather’s native language Italian or Swiss German? (Or something else—your family is very multi-lingual).
The scenery is magnificent. I bet when you were riding your bike you couldn’t even appreciate it. Thanks for the story.
The scenery is magnificent. I bet when you were riding your bike you couldn’t even appreciate it. Thanks for the story.
Thanks Ellen, but I guess I should clarify: I did some of these rides alone, but on others I had some other kids along. And yes, we were a lot more independent in those days and safety was not a great concern, life in general was quite safe. In 1960, when I was 16 years old, I did a 12-day solo-bicycle tour from Switzerland through France, Luxembourg and Belgium to the Netherlands and return through Germany, a distance of some 1800km - not everybody would have done that, but it was not that unusual. - The only language our family spoke was German, a Swiss German dialect, to be exact. I was the first one to get "into the languages ...". And yes, I guess the scenery on these bike trips was probably somewhat secondary, to the "achievement" of being able to do the trip.
Jan 30, 2024 23:24:59 #
Jan 30, 2024 23:28:22 #
Bubalola wrote:
Beautiful, Joe!
Thank you Eugene, glad you enjoyed these pictures.
Jan 31, 2024 06:36:38 #
weberwest wrote:
An area always close to my heart in Switzerland is... (show quote)
Another gorgeous set Joe.
Jan 31, 2024 07:32:09 #
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Jan 31, 2024 09:14:01 #
GreyOwl40
Loc: Quebec City
Another fine set, Joe! That was quite the adventure for a 14 year old. 50 - 60 km/hr eh? A little risky, no?
Jan 31, 2024 09:25:33 #
Joe, these pictures are absolutely wonderful. They're bright, wonderfully clear and perfectly composed. Of course it might help that the scenery is some of the best in the world! Do you use a tripod, or are you that steady on your feet (and hands)?
Jan 31, 2024 10:18:38 #
Wow, that is quite the landscape!! Very, very nice captures!
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Jan 31, 2024 13:12:16 #
J-SPEIGHT wrote:
Another gorgeous set Joe.
Thanks Jack, happy to see that you still enjoy my photography of these marvellous places.
Jan 31, 2024 13:12:35 #
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Jan 31, 2024 13:17:18 #
GreyOwl40 wrote:
Another fine set, Joe! That was quite the adventure for a 14 year old. 50 - 60 km/hr eh? A little risky, no?
Thank you John - I didn't think so at that time - I "knew" what I was doing ..... - now in hindsight: a bit crazy: luckily these descents were on good, well maintained asphalt roads, but just a pebble or two on the road, with these thin semi-racing type tires on the bikes, probably was after all not such a swell idea (I think my fastest speed was around 70kmh - at that time my most important extra on the bike was the tachometer....)
Jan 31, 2024 13:21:16 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Joe, these pictures are absolutely wonderful. They're bright, wonderfully clear and perfectly composed. Of course it might help that the scenery is some of the best in the world! Do you use a tripod, or are you that steady on your feet (and hands)?
Thank you very much Kathy for your very kind words, they are much appreciated. No, I haven't used a tripod in the last 30 years or so, except for some self-timer shots earlier on. I actually did not own a tripod until I got one for our 2020 trip to Iceland where I was determined to shoot reams of Northern Lights shots - and there I would say it might be beneficial. As it turned out, the entire week we were in Iceland, we never saw one shimmer of the Northerns: the sky was cloudy every night!
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