Well we got to Lugano as planned. On 1 hour plane rides they give us wine, beer, water, a huge snack bag. One could get spoiled traveling in Europe!!!
We take a short taxi ride to our hotel and find out that we could have taken the finicula down the hill and it would have been a quick walk to the hotel but one never knows the first time in town. We learn that we have to do the 'old fashioned way' of dropping the skeleton key off at the front desk every time we leave the building. We also discover that we got spoiled in our Hilton Suite but over all the room is nice and servicable with a much nicer view than in Prague.
We head out for a walk and after a few discussions we end up at Cantina Ticino. It was a nice cafe overlooking a local boulevard. The cook ended up being an interesting character. Every time the tourist 'train' drove by the front he grabbed his bell gave a long ring and the train would ring back. The placemats claimed that he, ????, put a team of chefs together to make 3 different Guiness World Records but I can't find them on the internet. Can anyone help me out? Oh yeah, the food was pretty good also.
On the way back we discovered that since it was Saturday night that they block of the main street along the lake and have a big party. In the park, there was a great Georgian Jazz Fusion band, Shin, in a packed square there was a Samba band playing, on the street there were tons of kids on scooters. Everyone else was either eating gelato or drinking/eating in a cafe.
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