We left Interlaken on the26th May. We had a date to keep. Our youngest son, (the one with the fractured spine) had decided to come to visit us as part of his recuperation. Perhaps a little risky, considering his delicate condition and unable to get himself health insurance he nevertheless with the confidence of youth, decided to fly to Bergamo airport to spend 10 days with us. Able to walk short distances and do gentle exercise, he spent a week in our “Swiss clinic” being waited on hand and foot! We spent just over a week at Locarno in the Ticino area , on the Swiss side of Lake Maggiore . The temperatures soared reaching the lower 30’s and some days it was hard enough for us all to do much more than lie in the
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