Bergamo & Lugano: Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 January.
Bergamo: This is a great city. The old city is perched on the hillside above, and while downtown is good for shopping, the old city was a great few hours of wandering through the ancient streets, sampling fruit flans, Vin Brule (mulled wine), and pizza, in the most amazing place, it was wall to wall people, with the most amazing array of choices of slabs of pizza, it was a great feed.
This place was really buzzing with people and atmosphere, and the buildings, churches and piazza’s were a constant feast for the eyes. Sharon did some street market shopping and got some good finds there.
Lugano: A short trip across the border into lower Switzerland to catch up with our friends Matt & Bethany and their baby girl Issy. who came down from Zurich to spend some time together with us. Well this place is a stunning lakeside town, very posh, and very beautiful. We have the best view of lake Lugano from our baclony of our room, what a vista! It is balmy weather here today, I’m in a t- shirt at night time in winter in Switzerland ??? And I was hoping for snow!
We have walked the lake during the day and night, it really is tranquil and beautiful. We drove up to Mont Bre’ and got an amazing look at the lake and the snow capped mountains in the distance. All the way up are multi million Euro mansions where the very privileged come to play and relax.
Tomorrow we are off south again heading for Portofino, via Milan.
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