4 posts tagged “lombardei”

Today my second trip took place. It was decided not to go to all the planned places in Switzerland but to focus more on the villages in Lombardei (mainly because Mainzelmann had forgotten all the papers at home and so every crossing of the border turned out to be a little adventure - but with us elephants in the car, they were always let go). I did not care - my focus was to be a travelling elephant and so I was.

We went to Viggiu, a very nice small village with a nice atmosphere. Hermann and Hermine joined for the trip and so we had a nice souvenir photo together. As I am too big to walk around hidden in a bag I decided to send Hermann who was really excited to go on his first trip and so he enjoyed it  much - actually a kid wanted to grab him out of his bag.

My highlight of the day was of course the nice portrait photo of us three couch elephants. But for the photographers amongst us, the highlights were clearly in front of their lenses.

I discovered there were many funny little trucks with only three wheels on the road. And bikes, of course. I really like travelling.

The big finding of this vacatiom is the beautiful town of Porto Ceresio at Lake Lugano (totally other side than Lugano, close to the Swiss border).

Though Hermann was asking again to take part at the trip I decided Hermine should better go, what she liked of course. Porto Cersio has a beautiful promenade and lots of photos were taken. Find some in the photostream, amongst them a burnt out ship, Eva and a church and, of course, a biker.

Hermine got her photo standing at the waterside. It was so windy that she couldn't just sit there but had to be fixed or she would have been blown away.

And again what a suprise the next thunder followed in the late afternoon.

After a night which was -so to say- a bit uneasy, a bright morning woke us up and here is a little impression from our yard.

To make friends with the area we planned a short round trip over the nearby hills and to the next little lake. We had to find out that Italy is even more about biking than about eating.

Here you see the whole bunch of us: Lower right is Garnicht, just avove him Doch, the little ones in the upper left are Herman and Hermine and the big grey fluffy thiing on the lower right is, you may have guessed it: me.

Today our trip to Italy has started. It was a rather stressy day. I had  comfortable back seat, but the others went to the trunk. Very thrilling to drive thru the Gotthard road tunnel, which is about 10 miles long. You drive and drive and drive...

We were targeted to a little town close to the Swiss-Italian border. In the town the first adventure was to find the road. Ok, Via Tossello number 18. It started with one and ended with sixteen. Where is number 18? Well, there is a narrow and steep path down here and some 100m downhill it actually was. Quite cool, especially when you use a SUV and not a lowered BMW. Anyway, we finally made it without any serious damage and saw a little house which was totally different than expected but quite nice. We were released that all elephants had enough room.