Postcards from Aunty Cranky.: Switzerland - Interlaaken

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Switzerland - Interlaaken - 29.4.1957

Hotel Du Lac, Interlaaken. Switzerland. 29.4.1957

Dear Pennie,

I took Susie to school this morning so I feel very lonely tonight without her. We leave on Wednesday for Stresa, which is in Italy. This afternoon we went for a ride in a sort of train called furnicular, and the train line was just like this.

It was great fun. We came here in a train nearly full of soldiers. They were talking German all the time and laughing at jokes, I couldn't understand, which was very annoying.

Lots of love, Nan.

Hotel Du Lac, Interlaaken. Switzerland. 29.4.1957

Dear Timmy,

What do you think of this sort of milkman? We are going up a snow covered mountain tomorrow by train, where we hope to see dogs like these pulling sleds. We also hope to ride on one of the sleds. The mountain is 13,600 feet high and it's name is Jungfran.

Lots of love, G.A.N.
(Great Aunt Nancy)

Hotel Du Lac, Interlaaken. Switzerland. 29.4.1957

Dear Merry,

I can lean out of my bedroom window at this hotel and throw bread to the water hens as they swim by. There are two quite big Steamers tied up just outside my room, but we won't be here long enough for me to go for a trip around the lake on one of them.

Lots of love, Nan

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About these Postcards.

Meredith, Penelope and Timothy.

My Great Aunt Nancy enjoyed travelling the World during the years from 1957 to 1962. Nancy was my Grandmothers younger sister, she was a Nurse before she met John Watson who was a patient of hers, he thought she was a very cranky Nurse so from then on, into their marriage, he and those living at the 'Homestead' called her 'Cranky' so 'Cranky' she remained at 'Wollogorang', the Sheep Station they lived on.

My family called 'Cranky' by her given name of Nancy, Nan for short but I lived at 'Wollogorang' on and off during my late teens even working there for long periods so she became 'Aunty Cranky' to me.

Cranky and John had one daughter, Susan, my first cousin-once-removed who spent some time traveling with Cranky and some time, at what was called back then, 'Finishing' Schools.

I loved my Aunty Cranky very much, I could spend hours and hours just sitting and listening to her long stories of her travels, she also bought me most of my childhood books which along with these postcards introduced me to the Big Wide World which I have now seen much of myself, but never with her style.

These Postcards were sent to me, my brother Timothy, my sister Meredith and when he was born to my youngest brother Nicholas. When Mum and Dad moved to a smaller home, Mum was going to throw these Postcards out but I, being somewhat of a hoarder, couldn't bear to see that happen so I saved them.

My brothers and sisters can follow this Blog and remember along with me those wonderful postcards that arrived at regular intervals from places some of which we had never heard... Wonderful Memories!

There are 320 Postcards on this Blog, many are obviously missing and who knows how many never arrived, what a prolific Postcard sender our Great Aunt was.

Someone in our family decided that they were a Stamp Collector so almost none of the cards still have stamps on them which is a big pity... I wonder where those stamps are now! In some bin I suspect.

BTW Cranky was far from cranky to me, she was loving if a little strict on how I should behave, she had a desire to turn me into a 'Lady'... which she failed at I'm afraid although I remember a few do's and do nots.

Enjoy, along with me, this view of a world in the late 1950's

P.S. 2015.

I put all these postcards into a large folder, then when my sister Meredith lost everything and her home to savage bush fires in Perth I sent her the Postcards to keep.