I wondered how near this cow was to the town, I never have seen this before, cows graze some hundred meters away from a bigger city 🙂 . Really cool and only in St. Gallen, Switzerland. To get to this place you have to take the incline elevator called Mühleggbahn.
My first way on that neat marketplace of St. Gallen was into a Swiss chocolate shop. There I ordered some tasters of excellent chocolate bars and a dark, short espresso. Then I searched after a location where I could get as much as possible of this marketplace on a photo. 🙂
Walking on the Pilatus, the mountain of Luzern, is a great experience. I could see vegetation you only have on mountains and even heard and saw alphorn blowers with traditional swiss garb. Walking is very safe with good built out walking trays and signs and guide markers to find your way.
The landscape of the Swiss-Italian border is a real eye catcher. Not a bad view, isn’ it? It combines both, best of Switzerland and best of Italy. It’s easy to cross the border, Switzerland is no EU member, but there are no real border controls.
A very neat hotel at the main street in Ascona. This is the Italian part of Switzerland you can see this at the name “Albergo” which stands for hotel. The nice thing is, that most of the people speak Italian, French, German and of course English. So you don’t get under stress if you want to communicate 🙂
The botanical garden of St. Gallen has thousands of photo motives. I couldn’t stop to take photos, my wife got little impatient…, but in the end I went home with hundreds of pictures. Please go there if you are in this city, you will be a friend of botanical gardens after this visit. The arrangements and presentation of the flowers and plants is first class.
The residents of those houses are rewarded with an unobstructed view on Lake Maggiore. But a Vespa or car are required to reach your front door, if you try to walk up those serpentines you need a good condition and get wet from sweat very fast in hot summer.
Lake Maggiore is a very nice and clean lake in southern Switzerland. You find mediterranean vegetation and can take ship tours to the cities of the lake. If you are eating in a restaurant, often it happens that there come some beggars in form of seagulls. Give them some pieces of bread and they will be happy.
Beneath quality and watches, for what does Switzerland stand for? It’s clear, clean, fresh water, maybe the best natural water in the world. Most of the rivers have drinking water quality. Even looking at those rivers makes you fresh, here nature is as it should be.
Even in summer, you can see some snow on the Gotthard pass in Switzerland. If you don’t take the tunnel and drive over the mountain from Ticino to Uri, you get rewarded with beautiful valleys and mountain views. If you have the time, please take this way.
