Day 22 Sat 6th July Lugano - Milan

Day 2 of the Playgrounds of Europe tour of Northern Italy and this part of the trip is in memory of my dear sister Penny who loved Italy.

No time to do the blog so am doing the next morning (Sun) and rushing so have managed to mess up the photos. Only half have loaded so will put the rest on tomorrow if I cant fix it

Where will I begin today?  At the start of course.  The Swiss Diamond Hotel is indescribable.  Class, class, class.  Its astounding getting a feel of how the rich live as we are waited on like never before.  Breakfast is in one of the dining rooms by the swimming pool and the lake.  We can't even take our selected food to the table, a waiter takes it for us.

Breakfast at the Swiss Diamond

Milan

the marble floor in the very old shopping centre (I have forgotten what it was called)

The entrance to the shopping  centre (from memory the first in Europe?)
There is bird netting right across the front to stop the pigeons flying in

Johan from Sth Africa taking a photo of us (which you will see
in the next photo

The most beautiful and cleanest cathedral we have seen.  It was made of MARBLE

one of the doors

inside the shopping centre

a shop that just sold leather gloves

inside La Scala

behind me 2 costumes from Aida

a tram!!!

We can't go to Italy without having a gelati

our bus (for 6 passengers)

a sculpture of a gladiator

Along the esplanade at Lugano

Lugano

A police bike

A small church in Lugano

Massive tomatoes

The hallway in our hotel

the foyer

our room

one end of our bathroom

our HUGE bathroom

The view out our window.  The tour price obviously couldn't afford the lake views!!

A wedding at the hotel (in the restaurant by the lake. There were 3 bunches
of these on each table

how would you like to pay for this wedding?

the water taxi coming to pick us up for dinner. the only way to get
 to this restaurant is by boat

our hotel from the water

arriving at the Italian restaurant

Entree

Delicious lasagne

our comical waiter

Dessert

Time to go home

A perfect ending to a perfect day