Switzerland - Neuchatel - 28.3.1958.

 Hotel Touring au Lac. Neuchatel, Switzerland - 28.3.1958

Dear Pennie,

     I am going to Susy's school this afternoon to help her pack, and  then we both fly back to London tomorrow.  Susy is going to a dance at night, so the school allowed her to come to Neuchatel this morning and have her hair done.  It looks jolly good too.  Next card you get will be from Italy.

    Lots of love, Nan

Hotel Touring au Lac.  Neuchatel, Switzerland - 28.3.1958

Dear Tim,

     You look just like Cookie with your crew cut.  Susy and I have just had our hair cut and the man used a cut-throat razor instead of scissors!  But he made a fine job of it.

     Lots of love, G.A.N.

Hotel Touring au Lac.  Neuchatel, Switzerland - 28.3.1958

Dear Mer,

     I am just going to have my lunch and as I am very hungry I shall eat a lot.  Last night when I arrived here I found a beautiful blue ashtray in my room.  It was a present from the Hotel, weren't they kind.

   Lots of love, Nan.

Hotel Touring au Lac today from Google Maps.  Aunty Cranky stayed here every time she came to Neuchatel to visit Sue at her school, no wonder the Hotel gave her an ashtray, she was a heavy smoker.

Switzerland - 30.9.1957 - From Sue.

 

 Dear Pennie,

Was very thrilled to get your letter, thank you very much.  Do you think you could get a photo of Gindy and Artillery Lass* for me, also one of Merry, Tim, Rip and Rosemary and yourself?  Last week we missed our weekly two hour Frence lesson (we also have one hour french EVERY morning including Saturday.  As you can imagine we cried our hearts out about this!!!!!!!  We get ten days holiday in 12 days time and can hardly wait.  Write again soon.

Lots of love, Sue XX

* Gindy was a horse living at the Army Barracks we were living in, one night she gave birth to a foal called... Artillery Lass by the Soldiers.

Dear Merry,

Thank you very much for your lovely drawing, I was very glad to hear from you at last.  I thought you had forgotten I existed.  At the moment I am being serenaded by Cow Bells, all of different notes I have seen lots of brown and black goats but not very many white ones.  They also wear bells like the sheep.   I have to write some letters now, write again soon.

Lots of love, Sue XX

Switzerland - Neuchatel - 19.8.1957

Neuchatel - Switzerland - 19.8.1957

Dear Rosemary,

      This is only a short note to say 'Howdy'.  Please give my love to the 'small fry' and also to Rip.  This is another adventure of the 'hat'.  'see far right in this photo'.  It is in Neuchatel by the Lake wall the first time we arrived here.  I didn't know I'd got them in till I got the picture printed.  Well there's no news except that I return to school tonight (no laughing please!!)  Write soon.

     Tons of love to all.  Tons and tons of love XXXXXXXX  Susie-Anna.

Switzerland - Berne - 17.8.1957

Hotel Bristol, Berne. Switzerland - 17.8.1957

Dear Pennie,

     Hope you like this beautiful cow.  We always wonder how they manage to carry such huge bells.  I think this particular sort is their Sunday best, they have smaller ones for everyday use.

      Lots of love, Nan

Hotel Bristol, Berne. Switzerland - 17.8.1957

Dear Merry,

     These are the baby bears who were too young for us to see when we were here last time.  We are paying them a visit tomorrow, I hope.  Wouldn't they make darling pets?  I hope Minder Bear* likes them.

     Love Nan
* 'Minder Bear' was Meredith's teddy bear who looked after when she was in Hospital at 3 years of age.

 Dear Bud, (our Mum)

     Doesn't this installment of 'The Adventures of the Hat' just say you!  You can't say I don't try hard to keep you amused.  Can't help wondering if anything is wrong, you've spoilt me with being such a regular correspondent.  We have just been back in London two ( ???? )   
Had a wonderful few weeks.  I might state that the dirty looking stuff we are sitting on is all part of the Glacier, but constant walking upon has made it that colour.  Our foot stools are chunks of ice.  It's so slippery that the gent who isn't a bear has to help his clients up .  Susy got a good report from school.  ( ???? )

    Love, Nan

Switzerland - Interlaken - 8.7.1957

 Hotel Du Lac, Interlaken. Switzerland - 8.7.1957

Dear Pennie,

     Everything in the picture, except the Swiss flag, is ice!  We hope to be there tomorrow.  On Wednesday, we are going by train for the day to Stresa, which is in Italy.  The train is called 'The Blue Arrow'. I think I sent you all cards when I was in Stresa last time.

     Lots of love, Nan

Hotel Du Lac, Interlaken, Switzerland - 8.7.1957

Dear Timmy,

     We will be riding in this train tomorrow and will be 11,333 feet up in the air!  I collected Susy from school on Saturday and for the first hour she kept explaining things to me in French!  I thought she had forgotten how to speak English.

     Lots of love, G.A.N.

Hotel Du Lac, Interlaken, Switzerland - 8.7.1957

Dear Merry,

     Isn't this a fine house?  I have seen a lot like this in Switzerland.  There is a big thunder storm at the moment.  We could jump into the river from our bedroom window if we wanted to, but I don't think we will.  It would frighten all the white swans.

     Lots of love, Nan

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

Switzerland - Neuchatel - 27.4.1957

City Hotel, Neuchatel, Switzerland 27-4-1957.

Dear Pennie,

     We have just returned from a walk by the lake where the white swans swim in amongst all the boats.  They don't seem at all worried with speed boats dashing around them.  We left London yesterday, by train to Folkestone, then a boat across the Channel to Calais, another train to Paris, where we changed into yet another train and arrived here at 7a.m. this morning.  You will be able to find all the places on the map.

     Lots of love, Nan.

City Hotel, Neuchatel. 27-4-1957.

Dear Merry,

     We slept last night on a bed in a train.  I t was fun.  It was the longest train I have ever seen, with a huge engine, but the whistle is just a silly little squeak.

      Lots of love, Nan.

Switzerland - Berne - 12.4.1957

 Hotel St Gotthard, Berne. Switzerland. 12-4-1957

Dear Pennie,

     You are a darling to write two letters, the ones I got here when we arrived this morning at the first I have received.  We came from Neuchatel in an electric train.  The entire front of the drivers compartment is glass and lucky Susy had a seat right beside the driver.  Twice did the whistle blow to tell deer to get off the line!  They went bounding into the forest lickety split.  We walked from the train to the Hotel, only about 200 yards and it was snowing and we arrived with snow on our coats.

     Lots of love, Nan.

 Hotel St Gotthard, Berne.  Switzerland.  12.4.1957

Dear Timmy,

      Thank you for your letters.  It was so good to get all the Rodd Families letters when we arrived here this morning.  We went to see the bears this afternoon.  The pit is just in a street, not a zoo.  you are not allowed to fee them on anything with sugar in it, so we bought a packet each of cut up carrots and dried figs.  They can catch very well.

     Lots of love, Nan
P.S. If  I'd saved my apple cores I could have given them to the bears!

Hotel St Gotthard, Berne.  Switzerland. 12-4-1957

Dear Meredith,

     I didn't mean to send another card so soon but was so thrilled to get your letters that I had to write to say thank you.  We left Neuchatel while it was snowing this morning and Susy opened her mouth to say something and slow flakes popped in!  We saw these bears today but they have grown just a bit bigger than in the picture.   

     Lots of love, Nan.

Switzerland - Nuechatel - 11.4.1957

 City Hotel, Neuchatel. Switzerland.
11.4.1957

Dear Pennie,

     We went to see Susie's school this afternoon.  It has lots of very old buildings, the head master seems very nice and so does his wife.  Tell Mummy I feel quite happy about leaving Susy there.  They even have lots of cows but not like this one.

     love, Nan.

 City Hotel, Neuchatel. Switzerland.
11-4-1957

Dear Timmy,

     This is a very nice place.  We love the traffic policeman.  They have long white batons which they point to where they want you to go.  How is Pee-wee? * When I come home I'll try to make her into a poodle.

     Lots of love, Nan.
* Pee-wee was a lovely dog we owned but she was baited by someone and died before Cranky could turn her into a poodle?  I have no idea why she thought that, she never owned a poodle.

City Hotel, Neuchatel. Switzerland.
11-4-1957

Dear Merry,

     What do you think of this for a swing?   We are having a very good time, but it is very cold.  Lots of snow.  We bought a loaf of bread this morning and fed dozens of white swans on the lake in front of our hotel.

     Love, Nan.