Grappling with "Grippe" and tackling Ticks in Switzerland near Buttisholz & The Tooth Fairy

Classic Tick Symptoms

Switzerland's weather has been indifferent to our arrival to be honest. It has been very unsettled, though not bucketing down, but then not summery either.

Our real issues though have been a bit more closer to our persons with S having a nasty red rash on her leg which was first noticed soon after leaving the UK and wasn't getting better. A visit to a  chemist who advised a cortisone ointment which still didn't alleviate the problem, this being almost two weeks later. Saturday morning a definite worsening, so a trip to the privately run A&E. Switzerland has an excellent medical system and everyone is compulsory, privately insured, so the system makes you cough first as all good Doc's do. When they've got you as they will, you cough. But with the promise off a possibility off some change from what we payed up front, we elected to continue. So a nice  Doc our age has one cursory look at S's leg and says she has a "Classic Tick" infection. To be fair we had been lectured by our UK & Swiss hosts that you need to be careful as they could be a real issue, but not an issue. Well they are an ISSUE, and it was touch and go with the prospect of Lymes disease also a real ISSUE. Luckily we were quite oblivious to these complications so with the reassurance's of the Doc, and some really needed anti biotic S is on the mend,and not to much stress incurred.
To be fair to our Swiss hosts, the time frame involved leads us to deduce it was a a British Tick, undoubtedly catching a ride from the confines of Twyford & one of the many hedgrows that we had walked before leaving.

This is not to mention my grapple with "The Grippe" . This European nightmarish flu is well known throughout out the EU and viewed with consternation and dread should it arrive at someones door and given the excellent health I have borne over the last few years, I was understandably worried that I was fast succumbing to "The Grippe" (Stop that snickering and No!! I hadn't succumbed years ago) .
So cutting through the  obvious concern garnered, I have been seriously affected by "Man Flu" over the last few days which in the confines of our bedroom/motorhome has not been easy for S to endure. But yes I'm getting better thanks & no I haven't gone blind with the Grippe!!

And the last issue in the health stakes is my new impending quality German Crown incisor, this BMW of tooth technology is, as I write, being cast in the industrial furnaces of the industrious German Nation, producing yet another valuable export, adding greatly to their GDP. Will not get the insignia engraved on so as not to appear to flashy.

Basel - German side across the Rhine River

Today in Basel I endured two hours in the dentists chair  as they looked, X Rayed,  and prepped my tooth for a crown to be manufactured and fitted next week. This travelling to Deutschland was probably a more economic option than a Swiss dentist who would undoubtedly have given excellent results, but not in the time frame of the next two weeks. Basel proved to be an interesting visit, a city on 3 borders (Switzerland / Germany / France) with a real mix of cultures and lifestyles, and incomes within its confines.

Basel Railway Station -So many trams, so many directions!!

Enticing enough for us too look forward to our visit next week, for a fitting of my new Tooth,and a saunter through some of its areas.
This also leads us on to the Swiss Train service, very efficient, very slick, a pleasure to travel on through very scenic, very tidy rail corridors at 140kph, precisely on time, with other interconnecting travel all done on your reasonably priced day pass.