chocolate & cappuccino 🇨🇭
Second day of Spring showers. Bring it on!
Passport in hand (just in case), absolutely no idea what the day holds. It’s unexpected/unplanned/spur-of-the-moment Swiss Day! 🇨🇭
Already captured the indoor sights of Como, spending today’s tourism dollars on a train ride north. Mile stroll to Como’s main station, 9€ (Euro) ticket to SWITZERLAND.
Flag change, currency switch (Swiss francs), same Italiano lingua. Tri-tongue country, Switzerland. German & Italian used in Lugano, country’s southernmost region.
Notta Swiss Miss yodel village. Money town. World fine-brands all represented, its fine cars as well. Mirror-image visual of my Como digs. Lake Lugano fenced by mountains. Cobblestone streets, hill top cathedrals. Billboards, Swiss watch-dominated.
Como v Lugano. Less pasta, less Italian villas – more croissant, more puff pastry. Day’s taste buds saturated on chocolate ganache & cappuccino (trip’s best). Swiss Day 🙂
Appreciate the ease of travel in Europe.
Short 40 minute return to Como. Late dinner, lake cruise in the morning.
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- 9€ travel
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- Swiss Day 🇨🇭
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- Welcome to Lugano
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- cobblestone laden
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- Lake Lugano
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- brands represented
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- German EASTER 🐰
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- hill top cathedrals
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- Cattedrale di San Lorenzo
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- fine cars & cappuccino
Tempio Voltiano
Narrow back alley architecture, cobblestone, 14th century cathedrals & church bells ringing. First day in Europe. Late morning walk, misty spring rain. All smiles.
Stomach grumble. Missed the breakfast hour. Focus shifted to window shopping & statue gazing while awaiting restaurants to re-open. Remember the same experience in Chile – 18 hours ‘til I properly synched up. Probably why Europeans are so thin.
When you do figure it out – mighty amazing eats. Simple, fresh ingredients, homemade sauces. Even cappuccino seems to steep different in Europe. Bellissimo. Thoroughly enjoy the art of food (locate a local bodega, for those of us who snack).
Day highlight: Como Cathedral.
Dinner: (local catch) Branzino, capers, homemade butter & olives. Molto bene!
Forecast sunshine Friday. Best day for Lake Como’s hop-on hop-off cruise.
Tomorrow? More Spring rain. After looking at the map (& discussing with the hotel concierge), ya know — Switzerland’s just a short 9 EURO train ticket away 😊
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- Villa Olmo
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- ‘Swan Lake’ Como
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- Statua di Alessandro Volta
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- cobblestone architecture
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- Como Cathedral
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- circa 1396
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- Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
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- WWI War Memorial
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- dedicated to Alessandro Volta (inventor of the electric battery)
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- fresh-catch branzino
Como Cathedral
red sauce & ravioli
50-mile DNF in Tennessee, cold rain in Indiana – folks, March was kinda a bust.
Buongiorno April. Red sauce, fresh fish & cappuccino. Bring it on!
14 hour-workday Monday, 2am Tuesday start. Not the most ideal timing for a world adventure – but for my soul, much needed chicken soup. ITALY! Whoop, whoop!
Expecting a crazy FULL travel day. Roundtrip airfare for only $500 – 12 hours start to Finish, but multiple Starts, multiple finishes. Don’t care, all part of the adventure!
Gonna EAT my way to Italy – Skyr & breakfast OJ in Reykjavik, pretzel Sammy in Munich. Airplane narcolepsy & a positive attitude 🙂 Not stopping ‘til I devour red sauce & homemade ravioli, fancy-dining high above Lake Como (Italy) 🇮🇹
All plugged in. International travel SOLO.
Frown, upside down. Adventure awaits!
Denver ✈️ Reykjavik ✈️ Munich ✈️ Malpensa 🚗 Lake Como 🚢 Lugano 🚂 Milan
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- breakfast Skyr
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- Deutschland
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- pretzel Sammy
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- Welcome to Italy
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- Como fine dining
Italian Telenovela
Food TV Italia
