Guess What? More Traveling!

June 16 we traveled from St. Moritz to our destination of Lugano.  But along the way we stopped at different places to see more of Switzerland (surprise!).

Now, remember, we are traveling in a 45 foot bus on not real wide roads.  BUT these are some of the roads that our driver had to maneuver coming down the mountain from St. Moritz!

Many times I would see our back end almost meet our front end.  It was a rather nervous drive, but our driver was awesome!

Once we got to the bottom we were on our way to Lake Como. It is a beautiful lake surrounded by high mountains, harbor filled with boats, and surrounded by fabulous villas.  A very wealthy place.  Now, notice in the picture, on the top of the tower.  It's GEORGE CLOONEY!!!!! You will have to look real close though.

Once we got to Lugano, after getting into our hotel, we were off for a boat ride on Lake Lugano to a traditional "grotto" for a fabulous 3 course private dinner party.  This grotto was a restaurant that you had to go through a small terraced community to get to.  During the tour of the lake we saw beautiful villas, small villages and this church.  It was built in the 700's and is still being used today.  Think about it - this church is over 1700 years old!

June 16 we were off to our next hotel stop.  But we were first sailing to Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore to visit an unbelievable palace that is still being used for a summer palace to a noble family who's roots go back to the 1700's.  It was built by Prince Barameo for his wife.  And the family still comes to this georgeous place for the months of August and September.  During the rest of the time it is open for visitors. Along with the 1200+ room palace it also has terraced gardens that are to die for. And included in all this are 4 pure white peacocks

Our hotel tonight is in the alpine town of Zermatt which we had to get to by a train.  Tomorrow, if the weather coorperates, our group will be going up to the Klein Matterhorn which is the smaller brother of the big Matterhorn.  Karl and I will NOT be going because of his asmah.  The elevation is over 12,000 feet.  So we will have free time to walk around the town and enjoy not doing anything.

Oh, by the way, did you see Clooney?  Gotcha!  He wasn't really there, but I wonder how long you stared at that picture to try and find him!  His villa is really a couple of miles away from the lake.  I am so bad, sorry!

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