Last Saturday the sun was shining really strong and we decided to drive down to Canton Graubünden, very famous mainly for its ski resorts.
We actually aimed at the Fashion Outlet in Landquart. A nice place, just besides the mountains, where you can walk among various buildings with many shops.
Inside the outlet you feel like everywhere or nowhere… it’s like an international location: when you are here you might be in many other places which all look similar.
But still the landscape reminds you that you are in the nice Confederation.
We spent a good time, we spent some money and we took a warm sun (for free)!
By the way, very near this fashion resort, you can find the so-called “Heidi village” (Heididorf): Meienfeld!
Unfortunately we could not visit the place, but keep in mind: Meienfeld is the location which gave the inspiration to the writer Johanna Spyri for her Heidi “epic”!
Fortunately at that time there was no outlet in these surroundings, otherwise maybe “The Devil wears Prada” would have been created, instead of the cute story of the little girl who is friend with the sheep and the mountains!
I found this interesting. You are so right, outlets are generic and that is disorienting. As for Heidi, I read it as a little girl in the 1960’s when it wasn’t as easy to learn about other countries as now with the Internet. I found the book exotic and fascinating, so different from my own home plus of course being set in the past.
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Hi Claudia,
Thank you for your nice comment.
I just knew and liked Heidi thanks to the Japanese cartoon series in the 70s and 80s…
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Landqart is really a nice place
Cinisello
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