To market, to market’ nursery rhyme (circa 1611) speaks to the traditional rural activity of going to a market or fair where agricultural produce is bought and sold. My highlight for this week was participating in the market at Gsteig, the next village over, on 30...
Transhumance. Mass noun. The action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer. Origin: Early 20th century: from French, from the verb transhumer, based on Latin...
Good things are happening in Feutersoey and at Open Spaces. Kyra, one of the residency partners, knows about and loves breadfruit. Pity I did not have any in my suitcase to cook up an oil down! But I did bring Ann’s tamarind balls, which are going down well. Also,...
It snowed the last 2 nights on the mountains surrounding Feutersoey. Given the temperature, the snow on the mountains, forests of pine that go on and on, and catchy cow bells jingling, it is possible to feel Christmas in September, here in the Alps. I went for a short...
Contemporary Arts Residency in the Swiss Alps – Feutersoey. I arrived in Feutersoey mid-morning on 15 September… was that yesterday? Seems quite aways from my hectic start in London, overnight in Paris, overnight Eurolines to Geneva, then 2 trains to get to Gstaad,...
My friend and historian John Angus Martin, author of A-Z of Grenada Heritage told me about ‘Bontemps the Swiss.’ It seems that Louis Francois Bontemps was a Swiss national who was an estate manager in Grenada. Bontemps was possibly involved in business of his own and...
