Then and now (2) Switzerland
I keep discovering pictures in my grandparents’ photo albums of places I have also visited. Of course I wasn’t aware of this when I was at these places myself. That makes the discovery of pictures taken from the same spot all the more fun and exciting. Here are a few examples.
Gruyères
One of my grandmother’s albums contains a single picture of the Swiss town of Gruyères taken in 1923. My grandparents married in 1927, but I think she traveled to Switzerland with her parents and her future husband. My picture of the same town, taken almost 100 years later, shows how little has changed.
My grandparents returned to this village in 1946, together with my mother and her brother. There are 2 pictures that matched our own visit in 2018. My mother can be seen in the first picture, to the right of her brother and mother.
The 1946 album also contained a beautiful postcard.
My parents were in Gruyères in 1985, together with my grandmother. Again, I found a picture from the exact same location.
Hörnli Hut
Also for their honeymoon in 1927 my grandparents went to Switzerland. I found a picture of them in front of the Hörnli Hut, an Alpine hut on the lower flanks of the Matterhorn. I have been there myself, in 1978 with my sister and in 1994 with Cathy. In 1965, exactly 100 years after the Matterhorn was first conquered, the tiny shack had been replaced by a large hut. In 2015 this feat was repeated once again, you can admire the new hut on their website
The Matterhorn from the Gornergrat, 2011. The Hörnli Hut is in the circle.