LIFE'S JOURNEY

Swimmers in the Rhine. The water moves rather swiftly so you don't really need to swim! They carry their clothes in waterproof bags on the water!

At last it is summer here in this part of the world and we are thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine and cloudless skies. It will end all too quickly I am sure, but for the moment we are making the most of it.

The Europa Cup finished last night with a win to Spain and a very unhappy Germany. We were on the midnight train coming back from Basel and it was absolutely packed with unhappy fans, but it was still rather noisy! Now Basel can get back to normal, whatever that is. Quiet little Basel certainly did come alive with the various fanzones and big screen viewing. We certainly did enjoy all the excitement and were able to enjoy the atmosphere as we sat in a friends home overlooking the Rhine and watching all the activity below. It was great.

Busy time last week. We did manage to have Monday off by not going hiking and we needed to just be home, so that was great. Tuesday Roger had an all day conference near Zurich which Derek Webster had organized. There were 11 leaders who met together for a most worthwhile day. Derek is organzing a 3 day away Conference called PREKO at the end of August which we are hoping to go to. I've made him promise me it will be in English!

I wasn't able to go to the Conference because we had organized a farewell lunch for an Aussie friend we met 3 months ago and I couldn't disappoint her.

Tuesday evening we had our Nooma Night but only Bernhard turned up so we ended up spending 1.5 hours with him, which is always great. Sitting in Starbucks discussing the meaning of life!

Wednesday I was on duty at Centrepoint for 5 hours as well as helping to fold the Centrepoint magazine 'Horizon'. And then Rog had Deutsch conversation and volunteering for a couple of hours and I was at Ilona's helping with the last of the packing before they moved to Solothurn today. I hope it went well for them.

Hopefully this week will be a little quieter for us. I need some days at home. I did have today at home and Roger went hiking with the gorgeous group. He left and I went back to bed for a couple of hours after a late night! Tomorrow we will meet with our Youth Pastor Dave and his wife Simea to talk about the Youth Camp which we will be attending for 2 weeks at the end of July. It's always such a joy to catch up with them both.