A Few More Pictures

Lugano, Switzerland

Hello friends and family:
We are spending the last few days of our vaction at a nice resort on Lake Lugano on the border of Switzerland and Italy. We will leave tomorrow for the Milan airport for an early Mon flight home. We are flying Air France!

The weather is perfect, the food is even better according to Ron. We got an upgrade to a junior suite because of air conditioning issues the first night. So we have been living in style!

This has been our 4th trip to Switzerland together, finally Sharon let Ron buy a CooCoo clock. His job is now to get it home safely!

The following are pictures of our resort and the local area. See you soon. . . .

Pictures

This is a view from the Bernina Express train --the Swiss Alps.


These are two pictures from our St. Moritz hotel window.

Two additional views from the Bernina Express train--Swiss Alps.
We are now at Lugano, Switzerland. We will stay here two nights.

Glazier Express Train and St. Moritz

Hello friends and family: On Sunday we left Gemmelwald and backtracked to Brig, Switzerland. From there we took a scenic train ride of what is called the Glazier Express. It was a slow but scenic ride. We arrive in St. Moritz to cool, rainy weather. We have enjoyed it even so and did get a walk around the lake and a 3 hr. hike today. St. Moritz is a twin city to Vail, Colorado, so skiing is emphasized and the slopes are nice for hiking when most of the snow is gone. Elevation here is 6000 feet--our hike today was much higher than that. We will try to add pictures but we are on a foreign computer so we are uncertain. Tomorrow we leave on another scenic train-bus trip to Lugano, Switzerland where we will be for 3 nights.

Today's hike near Gimmelwald

Hello friends and family, We had a beautiful weather day and took advantage of it. We started with breakfast on the Schilthorn. This is 10,000 ft revolving restaurant. It is famous for James Bond 007 movie in mid 60s. But the view, of course, is the main event. We took 2 gondolas to reach it. We then hiked the Northface trail near Murren which was about 3 hours of beauty. We will attach pictures. We have an apartment here so we have the luxury of relaxing on the porch or in the living room. We will eat in tonight by cooking pasta.

Gimmelwald pictures

Gimmelwald Switzerland

It took us 3 trains, a bus and a gondola--but it was worth it. We are in central Switzerland at an area recommended by Rick Steves. Very beautiful. It is a small farm village so we have fresh milk, cheese, yogurt, etc. Lots of hiking--most of them accessed by gondolas. We will spend 3 nights here.

More pictures

More pictures from our hike. Tomorrow we leave Zermatt to explore a new area in Switzerland. Dustin, Adam and Angela are now in Paris.

Zermatt pictures

Today we had a great hike in Zermatt area--with views of the Matterhorn the entire way. We were rewarded with a cafe at the top for ice cream. 3 hrs up--1 hr down.

Zermatt, Switzerland

Hello--today Ron and I begin our vacation with just the two of us. Dustin, Adam and Angela are now on their way to Paris. We will spend the next 11 day exploring more of Switzerland. We will try to post pictures later--now we have a bar computer with no USB connection.