Panorama Photo

In Sion I had the program to visit the oldest working organ in the world. I remembered that, according to my "Orgelführer Europa" it stands in a "Valeriakirche", which I always imagined to be an old forgotten church. So, once in place, I hoped to find this Valeriakirche in the Openstreetmap that I had loaded on my phone (first travel not depending only on sheet maps). Unfortunately, the name was unknown to the device but, fortunately, while visiting the cathedral I happened to meet a service wonderfully played and sung. "Those people will surely know where the famous organ is", I thought, and so I waited for the end of the long service. To my surprise, I learnt that the church in question was another very important and antique cathedral, Nôtre Dame de Valère, up on a hill dominating the town, dominated in turn by the hill of the Chateau de Tourbillon. All features that had appeared to me already since Sierre.
So, I found the organ and also a suitable viewpoint for a 360° panorama.
Le me notice that, for the Swiss weather forecast, those should have been days of rain. I was fleeing Switzerland quickly due to this. My original program was entirely different: from the Grimsel I wanted to descend on the northern side in order to go through Grosse Scheidegg, Grindelwald and then Lötschberg tunnel. Namely, I once happened to enjoy the view north from the top of the Jungfrau (reached by skis from Blatten via Finsteraarhorn and Fiescherhorn), but never the converse. So, since long times, a dream of mine is to stand atop some mountain such, say, the Faulhorn (which, according to its name, I also find suited for me). But this time the forecast, together with heavy columns of rains visible over the Oberhasli, while on the Wallis side the weather appeared to more forgiving, kept me away from all this.
At the same time, I was not willing to remain blocked by adverse weather in a country where, currently, 500 g of pasta cost no less than 4 euros (!!) and a kg of apricots 10 euros - seeing everywhere prices like this, I already imagined the caveaux of Swiss banks stocked both with gold and golden apricots... Better, I thought, to remain blocked - if this must happen - in slightly cheaper countries.
To ridiculize, as you see, the ominous forecast, was perhaps the sudden arrival of a strong wind coming from the west, at times with Patagonian strength, which accompanied me through the whole of the Rhône stretch: when, in Martigny, I turned left into the side valley leading to the Great St Bernard, in spite of the 2000 m of ascent awaiting me, I felt quite relieved.

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