An early morning - pack, breakfast, leave for Italy. At breakfast I make a sandwich (ham, cheese on a bread roll) for myself and slip it into my bag for later. The bus trip begins again! The first stop is the lion’s monument in Lucerne. It’s a dying lion carved into a stone wall. WOW! It is amazing to think one person carved it. Lugano Back on the bus we travel for a couple of hours to Lugano. Lugano is by the water at the border of Switzerland and Italy. There are paddle boats on the water, boats, and ducks. It is a small town almost like a village. We stroll through the farmer’s market where they sell fresh bread, fruit and vegetables, meat, and antiques. The stores there are designer boutiques like Louis Vuitton, Versace,
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