Zug

Last weekend we went to explore Zug, which is very pretty but has nowhere where you can get warm food after 2pm (except a grotty chinese restaurant in the train station, which did not appeal).

This is what we saw and liked:

A pretty wood-clad house

A lake with a view

A christmas-present tree !

 

And christmas geese.

Bellinzona Light Show

As we have probably mentioned before, there is always something going on in Bellinzona, and this weekend is no exception. But this time it's a bit more exciting than usually.  Bellinzona is celebrating its 10 year anniversary of becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site (it was added to the list of WH Sites in Nov 2000), and as part of the celebrations, the 3 Castles, as well as some of the other historic buildings, have been illuminated with a very impressive light-show:

Castle Grande

 

Looking across from Castle Grande to Castle Montebello.

Looking down from the castle hill

 

La Collegiata



  

Town Hall

 

And inside the townhall, some seasonal decorations:





Labels

Language and marketing are somewhat different here, and so we frequently find labels on products, product names and other such things which are rather amusing to us...  Here are some examples

Switzerland is more extreme...

The summers are much hotter, the winters much colder, the mountains much higher and the germs much nastier.  Cough cough sneeze.  And back to sleep.