EPISODE 709 WHY WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN A SWISS WEDDING…3 REASONS (AUGUST 2011)
alan Skeoch
Dec. 31, 2022
Weddings are just too personal. What I mean to say is weddings are all wrapped up
in love affairs between two people, in this case Natalie Muller and Martin Leuthi. Swiss pair.
At weddings Lots of
pictures are taken and shoved under the wedding bed for decades…sometimes never
opened. So why would you be interested in a wedding that happened in Switzerland
in 2011. Why? Because it was weird…never to be forgotten.
Martin rented an ancient bus to get us all to the wedding on time. Bus should have been in the car rally.
Martin greeted everyone as if he ws holding a papal audience at the Vatican.
This is Martin Leuthi. He is an extrovert….warm hearted. But also skilled, he builds
the turbines that make jet engines fly and huge turbines or electric power. Talking to
him rarely involves talk of turbines. Instead he is more than likely to ask what
you do rather than what he does. Easy to see that in his grin.
The two Kevins…Kevin Skeoch and Kevin Leuthi…one very skilled with the yo-yo. The other Kevin is married to Martin’s sister, Gabriela who is featured later in
this story. You will be amused for sure.
That’s the bride, Natalie talking with Verner Leuthi, father of the groom.
“Alan, have you ever used a yo yo?
“Long time ago.”
“Watch this.”
And Kevin entertained us….an expert with the yo yo, A skill forgotten by most of us.
After the yo yo came the car rally. All on the road in front of the reception hall. See how many cars you can identify.
Any luck with the the identification ?
After the wedding we stayed in a former convent then hit the highway back towards Crouh End in London, England. We never completed the trip home.
“Alan, you pump the gas while I pay,” said Gabriela
“Diesel or regular gas?”
“Regular, I guess.”
Gabriela guessed wrong/ We drove a couple of miles and the
Land Rover suddenly stopped…just enough motion to hit the ditch.
Those pictures tell the story. Called a tow truck…came…lifted everybody except me into the air…drove to a garage…”Tank has to
be pumped, cleaned”…overnight in a hoel for local Europeans….i.e. bunk beds in tiny room, cheap…morning baguettes and cheese and coffee…nice.
Kids grow up and sometimes forget the small disasters in life. No one will forget the diesel error.
There you have it…the yo-yo, the car rally, the diesel mistake. The wedding? Hard to forget…maybe
a few pics of the wedding should be included. It was a grand affair. Unforgettable. Very Swiss.
alan