Castello di Vezio at Varenna

Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]

From Lucerne to Lugano

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 This morning we checked our bags and backpacks for a boat ride to Fluelen, from which we’d take a panoramic train ride to Lugano in Italian-speaking Switzerland. The closer we came to Italy, (and I’m allowed to say this because I’m half Italian) the more out of control things seemed in […]