Le Parc Olympique

We were surprised to see an escalator in Olympic Parc.

Lasuanne

To my surprise the photos of our day in Lausanne look pretty good.
Seems as if we are enjoying ourselves? The pictures don't show that Bruce and I are worn out. The wine tasting event we went to the night before kept us out way too late. I wanted to stay in bed on Saturday but Bruce wouldn't have it. Our prepaid train tickets bought weeks ago would not go to waste.
When will I learn? Planing in advance has its disadvantages.

Lausanne is beautiful, The Lake front, Notre Dame, Le Parc Olympique and Old town are defitnetly worth visiting. The city is built on three hills and getting lost will have its ups and downs. Be sure to bring a good map.

Visit when the air is warm and the wind dosen't exsist. Get plenty of sleep the night before and you will have a lovely experience.

Notra Dame Lausanne

We can see it but we can't find it.

We had such a hard time finding the entrance to Notra Dame. Bruce kept telling me he knew where it was. I am standing in a Parking lot in this Photo.

I told you I knew where it was. You can see it can't you? Its over there. (Bruce's words)

Le Parc Olympique lausanne

We see this guy all the time in Zug.

Lausanne

View from the Train.

There were so many beautiful old hotels.

LOVE THE HONOR SYSTEM

Drink what you want and pay what you want. Schnapps, beer, wine,etc.......

RICOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Judith is really holding Ricola. Something Uwe kept offering us.

Hiking Mt.Rigi with our Swiss friends

Bruce and I were lucky to have Judith and Uwe our Swiss friends take us on a Mt. Rigi hike..

Judith and Uwe.

Bellinzona

Once again Bruce and I found we were in great need of some vitamin D so we hopped on the train to the Ticino region where the sun almost always shines. This time we decided to stop in Bellinzona the home of three castles.
Bellinzona was built as a fortress town in the era of Augusta Julius Cesar in the first century BC to protect Rome from the hordes of Europe..but as the centuries wore on it became an extremely important town protecting the trade route between Italy and the rest of Europe. ( This last paragraph was donated by Bruce.) Our goal was to visit all of them but we spent too much time at Castillo Grande the largest of the three and unfortunatley ran out of time. We plan to explore the other two with our vistors in June. Bonnie and Peter that would be you.

Locarno

After visiting Castillo Grande in Bellinzano we head to Locarno.

Bruce was determined to breech the walls of the Locarno castle but after a little ways up he decided that scaling the walls was not worth the effort.

In other words He Gave Up but he still thinks he could of made it.

The above was written by Bruce I am just the messenger.

Grindelwald

Bruce and I found out about a $54.00 all day train pass that could be used for all of Switzerland.
It was the first Sunny day on a weekend in a very long time so we decided to see how many places we could visit before we tired out.

Grindelwald was our last stop of the day and this is the only picture we took.

Very beautiful and we will go back to do some hiking in the spring.