San Salvatore

Friday was a beautiful day. Sunny, blue skies and a light wind. We took the bus to Paradiso and were dropped off right in front of the Migros, so we purchased some supplies for our picnic and walked towards the funicular for Monte San Salvatore where we met our friends in the parking lot. We knew H and A when we lived in San Diego, and now they live in Edinburgh. They had spent the week in Porlezzo, Italy at the east end of Lake Lugano.

We purchased our tickets and rode two funiculars up the side of the mountain. We wandered over to the terrace and staked out a table to settle down and have some coffee and milk.


Oh, we also looked at the gorgeous view of the Alps.


We sent the kids off to the playground and admired the view and chatted. Then we walked up to the top of the hill and climbed the steps to the top of the chapel to look at the view and take pictures.

Family portrait of the Geeks.


Little Geek Girl and J, age 5, and D, age 2.5. Baby E was comfortably carried by mom.


And a view of Melide and Swiss Miniatur. The smudge in the back is Milan, Italy.


We came down from the top of the chapel and stopped to have lunch. On our way back to the funicular the kids had fun picking up leaves and throwing them off the side of a walled terrace, where the wind would pick them up and they would fly up. We then took the funicular down and went in search of gelato. We found a gelato shop on Via San Salvatore just south of Via Giuseppe Cattori and Zürich Daddy Geek and LGG shared a dark chocolate and vanilla, and I had cinnamon.

We walked down to the lake. At one point ZDG was entertaining the kids with Simon Says and leading a duck parade. Little D really liked seeing the boats on the lake and the little tourist "train" that kept passing by us between Paradiso and Lugano. Alas, the kids started getting tired, so we walked them back to their car and said our goodbyes. ZDG will be in Edinburgh next month so he'll be able to see them again soon and hopefully LGG and I will visit Scotland soon too.