A new year and a new Alphorn Infotourist theme tune by the Wunderkind Lisa Stoll just 14 years old!
Lisa's musical career began at the age of 6 playing the recorder. Later she picked up the cornet, (the
instrument not an icecream) beginning a great passion for brass music. The school band followed and at the age of ten
she took on the alphorn and has become brilliant at it, winning all manner of awards. Now another accolade for Lisa,
a year as the new Infotourist theme! Well you can't win them all Lisa!
The track is called Fix and Foxi from Lisa's new album Love Alphorn.
Twitter is an experiment, so I can learn more about all these extramural internet activities. I've
tried facebook, a blog and now Tweeting, and it's relatively good fun, but whether any of them will become lasting parts
of my internet life.. I don't know yet. I guess I should say 'watch this space'. Now there's an idea for a new application,
sorry 'app', people could upload a picture of a space for their friends to watch.. I could make a fortune!
Lisa is interviewed in German about her rise to fame!
A couple of weeks ago one of my radio pieces looked at the Inferno ski race down from the 10000 foot Schilthorn.
The Daily Telegraph ran a very interesting and exciting piece on the race with an amazing video of what it's like to ski this
amazing downhill. See it here. And below Markus's run down the entire route. Some of the ridges are very narrow, curves very tight and
the cliffs very steep!
The garage may be freezing, the layout covered in mouse droppings, the locos refusing to take to the mucky
tracks, but it's a new year, time to don the train drivers cap, switch on the power, prepare the locos, switch the points,
turn on the green light , blow the whistle and.... and continue planting trees! Oh trees! Well maybe a few for now.
Find out the latest two pages on our model railway layout. And catch the short video of the layout on the second page 'The Layout Backdrop'.
