One from the vaults, pardon the pun. I am busy in Charlotte and don’t have time to scratch myself yet. Will write more soon. Here’s one from the cupboards till I can catch my breath.
I am cautious about calling the blog The Wacky anything. Last time I did that I started war with the French. However the Swiss are just blog gold. You turn your head and there is something else quirky to comment on.
So today’s discovery. They all have bomb shelters here.
That is just seriously awesome. Everyone here has to have a bomb shelter in their house or access to one. Despite being neutral the country is armed to the teeth and has a system of secret tunnels in their mountains for their defence. And there are bomb shelters aplenty here.
Here’s the family’s
The room is underground and the concrete walls are, at least, a foot thick. The door you see there is massive and incredibly heavy. You literally heave to move it. They use this room (rooms actually as this complex has two) as a drying room for clothes. So, in addition to the air filtering system in the concrete bunker, there is a heating system to warm the air and dry the clothes on the clothes lines that stretches across the rooms.
This is the cheery warning on the door.
The gist of it is the shelter would house 15 people (though God knows how – it wasnt that big) and it helpfully describes that the pamphlet of the measures to protect that population are available in the phone book, or some such. Which is something I always want to know when I open the phone book. And I love the concept that you can dry your clothes while you sit out the apocalypse. They have thought of everything.
Away For A Bit 
glad to hear that Charlotte is keeping you busy.I know if I was in a neutral country and had all that extra space just begging to be used I would have all sorts of things going on! Now I know what you are probably thinking. dope drink boy, but neigh, I mean I would have veges hanging up to dry and big drying racks for my fruit leather.It would be a variable walk in dehydrator(not good for the skin though I suspect!)
Actualy, in honesty, the shelters would be ace rooms for growing dope crops now that you mention it.
Perhaps thats how they manage to supply the drinks.