Having now lived for about 15 months in Switzerland I feel considerably more at ease than I used to. Now that is a relative term, lest any of you think I am an expert in the field (I am not). But enough of comfort to be able to get round and about without difficulty. Went to Triberg yesterday, that's a village in Germany with a population of 5000 people or so. Triberg's claim to fame is that it has Germany's highest waterfall inside the village centre, a beautiful, pretty scene- was lovely and exciting and in the deep winter too, when you have spray descending on your face in a fine mist. It also claims to be the place where the Black Forest pastry was invented. We went to the Restaurant Schafer, which claims to be founded by the inventor of the pastry Schafer and ordered one each. Absolutely divine hunk of cream, chocolate shaving, sponge cake, the whole lot liberally dipped in cherry brandy and with real cherries in it. To be honest, transported briefly to heaven for the brief while I was eating it!