{"id":22924,"date":"2022-12-31T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=22924"},"modified":"2022-12-31T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:29:38","slug":"episode-709-why-would-you-be-interested-in-a-swiss-wedding-3-reasons-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=22924","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 709 WHY WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN A SWISS WEDDING…3 REASONS (AUGUST 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE  709   WHY WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN A SWISS WEDDING…3 REASONS  (AUGUST 2011)
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Weddings are just too personal.  What I mean to say is weddings are all wrapped up<\/div>\n
in love affairs between two people, in this case Natalie Muller and Martin Leuthi.  Swiss pair.<\/div>\n
At weddings  Lots of <\/div>\n
pictures are taken and shoved under the wedding bed for decades\u2026sometimes never<\/div>\n
opened.  So why would you be interested in a wedding that happened in Switzerland<\/div>\n
in 2011.  Why?  Because it was weird\u2026never to be forgotten.<\/div>\n

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Martin rented an ancient bus to get us all to the wedding on time.  Bus should have been in the car rally.<\/div>\n

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Martin greeted everyone as if he ws holding a papal audience at the Vatican.<\/div>\n
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This is Martin Leuthi.  He is an extrovert\u2026.warm hearted.  But also skilled, he builds<\/div>\n
the turbines that make jet engines fly and huge turbines or electric power.  Talking to<\/div>\n
him rarely involves talk of turbines.  Instead he is more than likely to ask what<\/div>\n
you do rather than what he does.   Easy to see that in his grin.<\/div>\n
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The two Kevins\u2026Kevin Skeoch and Kevin Leuthi\u2026one very skilled with the yo-yo.  The other Kevin is married to Martin\u2019s sister, Gabriela who is featured later in<\/div>\n
this story.    You will be amused for sure.<\/div>\n

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That\u2019s the bride, Natalie talking with Verner Leuthi, father of the groom.<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, have you ever used a yo yo?<\/div>\n
\u201cLong time ago.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWatch this.\u201d<\/div>\n

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And Kevin entertained us\u2026.an expert with the yo yo,  A skill forgotten by most of us.<\/div>\n

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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.<\/div>\n

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Any luck with the the identification ?<\/div>\n

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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.<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, you pump the gas while I pay,\u201d said Gabriela<\/div>\n
\u201cDiesel or regular gas?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cRegular, I guess.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Gabriela guessed wrong\/  We drove a couple of miles and the<\/div>\n
Land Rover suddenly stopped\u2026just enough motion to hit the ditch.<\/div>\n

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Those pictures tell the story.  Called a tow truck\u2026came\u2026lifted everybody except me into the air\u2026drove to a garage\u2026\u201dTank has to<\/div>\n
be pumped, cleaned\u201d\u2026overnight in a hoel for local Europeans\u2026.i.e. bunk beds in tiny room, cheap\u2026morning baguettes and cheese and coffee\u2026nice.<\/div>\n
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Kids grow up and sometimes forget the small disasters in life.   No one will forget the diesel error.<\/div>\n

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There you have it\u2026the yo-yo, the car rally, the diesel mistake.  The wedding?  Hard to forget\u2026maybe<\/div>\n
a few pics of the wedding should be included.  It was a grand affair. Unforgettable.  Very Swiss.<\/div>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}