September 2020
Friday 4th September 2020
Cancelling noise
This evening we were taking a walk through Hombrechtikon. It was the moment in the day when some people were still on their way home from work, while others were already on their way out for a pleasant late summer evening’s drive.
As we got to the series of bends in Hombrechtikon Tobel, a sports car came towards us. It was a low silvery vehicle with head-lights like a frog’s eyes and a radiator grille which looks like a gaping, toothless grin. I don’t know much about sports cars so I couldn’t tell you what make it was, or even whether it was a genuine classic car, or simply a piece of retro design.
There was a man at the wheel and in the passenger seat a young girl; his daughter, I would guess. What struck me was what she was wearing. She had on a bright, shiny yellow pair of noise-cancelling headphones. At first I was touched by the father’s concern for his daughter’s hearing. But then as the car passed around the bend and we heard the throaty roar of its engine, I can’t help feeling that it was the rest of us who should have been wearing headphones.
As we got to the series of bends in Hombrechtikon Tobel, a sports car came towards us. It was a low silvery vehicle with head-lights like a frog’s eyes and a radiator grille which looks like a gaping, toothless grin. I don’t know much about sports cars so I couldn’t tell you what make it was, or even whether it was a genuine classic car, or simply a piece of retro design.
There was a man at the wheel and in the passenger seat a young girl; his daughter, I would guess. What struck me was what she was wearing. She had on a bright, shiny yellow pair of noise-cancelling headphones. At first I was touched by the father’s concern for his daughter’s hearing. But then as the car passed around the bend and we heard the throaty roar of its engine, I can’t help feeling that it was the rest of us who should have been wearing headphones.
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Tödistrasse 9, 8634 Hombrechtikon
(New address from 24th March 2018)
(New address from 24th March 2018)
If you are travelling from Rüti / Wolfhausen, drive past the Hombrechtikon place-name sign for about 300 metres and turn right into Tödistrasse, just before the Tobel bus stop.
Approaching from Hombrechtikon
If you are approaching from the centre of Hombrechtikon, follow the signs to Rüti. At the Tobel junction (the Methodist Church is on the left) turn left. Tödistrasse is the next turning on the left, just past the Tobel bus stop.
The entrance to our new flat is about 100 metres from the junction with Rütistrasse, on the left-hand side of the road.
The house number is number 9 and we are on the first floor.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
Arriving by bus
If you arrive by bus from Bubikon, get off the bus at Tobel and follow Tödiweg until you get to Tödistrasse. Our house is on the right.