31 May-1 June, Mond-Tues

Now it is time for Zurich!!
Ah, sorry, not yet, it's Shaffhausen first. Pretty town, lots of medieval-looking buildings and a castle-like building on a hill surrounded by grapes, which was built with the labour of slaves. Fascinating!
4 or so km of Shaffhausen is one of the biggest waterfalls in Europe, over the Rhein. You have to pay for practicly everything here, even the view...
Now we can go to Zurich!!
The first thing I've noticed about it is, that it's big. And full of people who go in and out and about... Not like the silent and friendly Lugano. Although, I have to tell you, Zurich is a pleasant surprise to all who expest a trading center or bank town. There is green too! And historical buildings and churches and water...


And the best secondhand bookshop ever!!!
So, after a little bit of phone number mixup and travelling (my bad!!) I could spend the night at Remo's, in one of these brand new beauties:
And took off early to... ST GALLEN!!!
Where GAllus, the travelling Irish monk stumbled upon a treeroot and established the abbey. And where one of civilisation's cornerstone is, the library!!!
Sadly, I could not take pictures inside...
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But it's gorgeous!!!!
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There I met with a nice old American lady, who searched for her ancestors. (that's not her in the next pic....)
Well, after St Gallen I felt I'd like to visit a different country, and made a detour to Liechtenstein. By bus.
It's not that different after all... Both modern and old, and has a national library which looks like our district Szabó Ervin... :P
And finally, Vaduz, where the princ lives.
(sorry guys, no prince at the window... :( )

29-39 May, Sat-Sun

Let's go to Brig!! Through Italy non other!!!

The famous Matterhorn from Zermatt.
And the delicious fondu!!!!
Next day we went to French Switzerland. It was raining.
Sion


And this beautiful church, or rather a snippet of it, secretly photographed.
Lausanne




The underground is great!! There is noone driving it, it's totally elechtronic!!! You can even stand at the front, see?...

28 May, Friday

Now Bellinzona's got to see me after all :):)

It all began with terrible rain. And the conviction that I have to make it up to Bellinzona today. So I went to that fine city, the center of Ticino, where you must at least pass through every time you come to Lugano from the North. Famous for its 3 castles, UNESCO World Heritage sights or what. Well, then I went to search for some nice old churches a little bit out of town by a map I got from the Turist office. Circled around a bit, one of them was an interesting graveyard church,

And the rain began to fall even more strongly, so I took a train to Locrno, beside the Lago Maggiore, hoping to get a bit of sunshine. Nice place, very secretive with it's sights, not very good icecream, and a monastery on the hill, Mary...something... de Sacco. I climed up,
They were renovating the whole place, women painted frescoes all over, I could not even enter the church! But I saw the statue of Mary, and the view was really spectacular!!
Then I saw the castle, got lost a bit cursing the Eyewittness guides in several languages, and took a bus into the general direction of Ascona...
Tourist place, the lady from the Lucern train yesterday mentioned to have a summer home here. Many people have one. This little town got it all. Lake, sun, trees, nice library... Gorgeous! And a German second hand bookshop with spectacular armchairs!!
Well, after a while I decided to go back to Bellinzona (was on the way anyway), to have a bit of sun there too. The bus and the one-way street pretty much fooled me than, but I managed to arrive and climb a castle.
It's really hard to get all 3 of them to one picture, but here I managed. Forefront: the castle I'm at. Background: No 2 and 3.
Well, and the fun on that ay, it was day 3 of the annual Bellinzona Beatles Days!!! Free concert in the middle of the Sun Square. Beer, people, black T-shirts!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!

27 March, Thursday

Well, When I woke up I thought I`ll go to Bellinzona, but for some reason I ended up in Luzern with a trainpass thing... That 3 hours by train. On the way I had a pleasant conversation with a woman, who just had her yearly vacasion in Ascona, and have been in Budapest. Nice lady !
One of Luzerns most famous construction is this wooden bridge. Built in the 14th c, burnt down and reconstructed. Inside there are pictures about Swiss historical events, stories.
There is another, a bit less famous wooden bridge, its filled with Dance with the Death pictures...
Two big churches, the Jesuitkirche, 1st Baroque church is town,
and the Franciscan`s church. Here the organist practiced for next weekss mass, and sometimes got lost in his or her mind, improvising whatever came. And he or she played really well! A little Dvorzak, a little gragorian, whatever :):):):)
The monastery (used to be at least...)
And of course the famous Lion statue. It is the commemoration of Swiss soldiers defending a king and dying a heroic death!!
On the train I tryed really hard to make pictures, the mountains were absolutely brilliant!!!

Dear fellows, this is the cloudwatch Switzerland.


The clouds are pretty, white, and thin. Some mountains are visible, but mostly they are not...
Well, flying bove them was a pleasure. I sat at the windowseat, nobody in the middle, and a nice middle-aged woman near the corridor (she was afraid of flying... and went to Italy to visit a daughter who lives there. And she is from Zala, with a distinctive Szeged pronounciation)

Bergamo! Whatever you hear about it , Bergamo is even more beautiful! The town itself is 15 minutes far from the sirport. There is a Citta alta, Upper town, surrounded by walls and definitely middle ages, and one Lower town.


I climbed too the Citta alta first, at there begin a series of dreams coming true...When I could not decide where to go, a nice policeman recomended me a route of stairs without me even asking. Piu bella! :) When I wanted a picture to be taken, two nice Italian guys came and took one with me! When I wished for a toilet, I happened to stumble upon an empty university cafe... And once I accidentaly entered a theatre.. :)
Italian little towns are so beautiful! They are full of rooftops :) And buildinsg which look 16th c from the outside and 21th c from the inside...
Than I bumped intos some demonstration on the streets, and joined, beacuse marching on the street legally is fun :) They used drums and were mostly high school students.Well, than I travelled by train. Nobody even asked for my passport or ticket...
And arrived to Lugano, which was a bit misty, but nice, and had dinner and walked around...