It was a pleasant three hour train ride with nice views. We arrived in Lugano right around lunchtime and after finding the tourist office to pick up a map, we were ready for lunch. After looking at a couple of menus we decided to eat at the Lonely Planet's Author's Choice -- Bottegone del Vino.
We were seated at a community table, and when our neighbor was served an interesting looking dish, I decided I would have that. It was roast pork with a tuna sauce on a bed a greens with tuna stuffed mini peppers. Auntie Geek had the ravioli and we both had a couple glasses of wine. We then finished with the yummy cheese plate.
It was time to walk off lunch, so we headed towards Paradiso, a southern suburb. It's a nice walk along the waterfront.
Our goal was to take the funicular to the top of San Salvatore and walk down. In the picture below you can barely see the tower on the top of San Salvatore. Thankfully there is a funicular, because the direct route up the hill is very steep.
The walk down took about an hour and went around the backside of San Salvatore on the way down. Auntie Geek kept trying to get the "perfect" picture of Lugano, but there was always a hill, bush, or tree in the way. Near the bottom she captured the following view.
Okay, so maybe we only burned off the cheese plate with the hour walk, but we were now ready for some gelato. After gelato we walked through the city center to look for a take-away place to pick up some food for dinner. I was worried for a little while because things were closing up and we couldn't find a grocery store, but then Auntie Geek spotted the bakery and we got some sandwiches and a slice of tart for the train ride. We could have stayed in Lugano for dinner, but we didn't really want to return to Zürich in the middle of the night.
It was nice to get some sunshine and I'll definitely return with ZDG and LGG.
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