What was the point?

Up the mountain Pffander (1066m and this being my 4th trip), on the cable car which was empty as it was late afternoon. Then it happened. we stepped outside the cable car and the rain came down. It came and it came, the clouds came in and we could not see anything from the cable car station. We couldn't even get to the resturant up there (about 50 meters walk) as the rain was really bad. So after twenty minutes, and the rain showing no sign of stopping, we headed back down the cable car with all the other hikers who had the same idea.

In Bregenz we did a little bit of shopping from a local supermarket as it is a lot cheaper to buy here than in Switzerland we found out, and then headed back into the car, put the key in, and it wouldn't turn! Dam, I thought, we probably have broken down about 350km away from the hotel, in another country and it was early evening.

Not good. I rang my dad on the cellphone to get his advice and he thinks I just need to turn the steering wheel and turn the key at the same time as the steering lock as kicked in. It worked, it did the trick. So out of Bregenz we went, looking for another resturant for a late dinner, but the rain just came down. In fact it was so bad, I didn't bother looking for a resturant anymore and just stopped in McDonald's as the rain was making it impossible to see out of the windows. The roads were flooded, and every time I tried to brake, I just skidded, like all the other cars. That was it, McDonalds, have a meal, (probably get ill at the same time), and wait for the rain to clear, which it did within 50 minutes. After that, it was a long boring 4 hour drive back to Gyron via St Gallen, Zurich, Bern and Montreux. A wasted day I thought with the weather, but a day I won't forget in a hurry.

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