Reasons to love living in Switzerland 1. It's safe!

Neeedless to say, I am LONG overdue for a post, an update! I'm starting a new series, as in the title and hope to update it frequently enough. Pictured below is an assortment of pottery for sale outside the monastery in Fishingen. As you can see, OUTSIDE the monastery the vases are available to buy, not cheap and not expensive. But there's no person involved, you take the slip of paper shown in the 2nd photo and fill out your bank acct. info. and pay the monastery! Ok, yes this is a holy place, so you'd assume people will honor this system, but you never know! And I'm not exactly sure this honor system would work successfully in most parts of the U.S., sorry. Do you agree people?

We have several other examples of this which I'll show in future posts.

And the same can be done with fresh cut flowers, as shown below. If you look in the first picture on the left, 'Kasse' means cashier, it's where you deposit the money you owe for the flowers you've selected. These are located in various smaller villages outside the cities. It's small here, so it doesn't take long to get into the countryside or farming areas where you find these kinds of stands, as well as farms that have a similar set up. At the farms you can go into a small room & purchase eggs, vegetables, fresh milk, etc...and deposit your money, all without the observation or assistance of a human being! (however a lot of the farms have video surveillance!) Hopefully a farm photo will follow soon,