May 28: Tarasp Vulpera

Vulpera is quite small and appears to comprise hotels almost exclusively, very few private homes.

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From the Crayola/Mickey D's bus stop bench, a look down the main road at Vulpera and a very distant glimpse of Ftan.

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A succulent with pretty yellow flowers just starting up.

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Near the bus stop is a little chapel, the Kapelle St. Johannes Baptista. Vulpera and the rest of Tarasp is mostly Catholic in contrast with the rest of the Unterengadin.

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Despite its early-19th century construction, the Kapelle has a fantastic modern door...

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...and a modern mural at the altar...

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...and a modern stained-glass window.

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But the entrance side is a lot more traditional. The balcony looks barely high enough to stand up in!

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The upstream side of the chapel. The porch is for getting up into the balcony inside.

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A grand edifice across the street from the Kapelle.

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Heading out of Vulpera and uphill to the southwest, I stumbled upon a golf course in the woods.

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I appreciate the avant-garde mowing at upper left.

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That is some echt krummes Holz.

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The golf course blindsided me with nostalgia for Bermuda, which I visited almost every winter with my family growing up but hadn't been to in five years at this point; we used to stay near the Port Royal golf course and explore around it a lot. But this was a muddled-up nostalgia, given the views of the Alps in the distance and the boreal forest impinging on the greens.