St Paddy's Weekend, the first instalment

Enjoying an Irish Cider while sporting our sexy new hats, Nadine and I celebrated the Irish in St Gallen, a town founded by an Irish monk.

A popular local story has it that as St Gall was travelling in the woods he sat one evening warming his hands at a fire. A bear emerged from the woods and charged. The holy man rebuked the bear, so awed by his presence it stopped its attack and slunk off to the trees. There it gathered firewood before returning to share the heat of the fire with St Gall. The legend says that for the rest of his days St Gall was followed around by his companion the bear.