Dessert is a dish served after the main … mostly sweet. Everyone remembers the children’s expectations of the most unbearable insult and a dessert if you had to leave before bringing a cake … but why else .. why would endure suffering for several hours …. And finally, we presented the same fate as the Grisons dessert … It is still not clear what hooked us so much this canton: can their offishness may slow or its savagery or how it arose in our minds in the fall and winter … Not understandable, but to us there was good, very good …. As sometimes we can not answer the question of what we like or that person … That’s like against all odds, that’s all So I will not split up in parts of the history of our stay here because I flew like a day and now, even looking photographs, it is very difficult to break all its constituent parts days.
And yet we have a wonderful alliance turned out to Natasha: in spite of minor differences (still alive, and Zodiac signs are different)), we have full understanding in the main: relatively early rise and a constant mess in the car and in the room)

Again amazed and glad that everything is for the people and all people cherish it for themselves. in front of the shop – with barbecue grille: take and use. And there are benches around the lake pieces neskolko.No something was missing in the landscape … habitually looked for eye plastic bottles, cigarette butts, packets … No, do not have a trace of urbanization bored living.

We drove through San Bernardino to Thusis. Not far from there is Tuzis place of worship, it is called Via mala. Stunning beauty of the gorge, rugged showers, where it appears that the river opened up the mountain into two halves, but she is torn away, far below. If need somewhere to live in Switzerland, the devils, it is precisely here. This gorge depth 600metrov and 2.5 km in length to Hinter-Rhine. The bridge dates from the 1739 year. There is also a plaque on the tragic fact, but, heck, in all languages, except anglitskogo)

Luciano, owner of the hotel recommended that we ride to the islands of the Borromeo, and warned that in the season (summer) to the people there very well, a lot. So today, again, Italy, the euro again, again, Lago Maggiore, but now the other side.

Indeed, this is a beautiful lake Lago Maggiore: and the water pure and beautiful coastline …. This is the tenth time seems to go there and not get bored … They arrived at Stresa, the car left the parking lot (4 euros), but here at the marina bought a ticket to two islands (10euro .)

The system is this: you can go on a small boat (probably cheaper), it is possible by boat. You buy a ticket, you put on a boat, you remember his name, first brought to an island, where you walk and then catch a boat the same (whose name is learned), moved to another island, then back to Stresa. All this is quite passable English explains seller of tickets. Well, of course, the first of what we have got rid of it because of the name of our boat, but both are well remembered the captain. : Smile:
And about the island … What is a human nature: always compare what was with the fact that there is hope in the future better? … Remembered as one of my friends was talking with an old grandfather, who survived the repression. And the question: “Grandpa, so when it was better?” – “Then …. Because the girls were younger …. ». But now is not about this … This is me for what I was so sunk into the soul of Peterhof, that everything seen in the future could not help comparing him and almost always in favor of it … Personally, for me not impressed with either the island or the gardens … gardens themselves Photos I will not post, many of them on the Internet, and many successful …

Inside, one of the walls were photographs of children (mostly infants), and not just photos, but also some little things … I wanted to think positive, and since it was not to ask anyone, it was decided that these were kids who were baptized in the temple …
Bellinzona
Despite the fact that they lived very close (though those who know will understand what is next, when 10 miles of serpentine) arrived here only on the third day, take a look at the locks. That would see it all on foot is not out of the question: so strongly impacted hereditary laziness)), so up to the top of the castle reached by car. The only thing that can be advised for those who like walking: to reach the top of the castle on a bus and go down …. it is always pleasant)) Again pluses of evening visits to the fact that almost no one but us was not there a couple of local cats and even a wedding))).
Upper Castle – Castle Unterwalden (Unterwalden) or Castle Korbaro Sasso (Sasso Corbaro) very small and so we were not allowed inside, because removed advertising …. To order, we are there is something about pomitingovali human rights violations in Russian express their attitude and left with a kind of “not very much and wanted to …”

Castle of Montebello (Montebello)-our favorite castle in Switzerland. It was he who collected all that fancy paints the word lock: Knights and fights, and dinners with torches …
To get to the castle of Bellinzona Kastelgrande can walk, climbing the steep, narrow streets to the Market Square in the old part of town to the city wall and the base of the castle. In the castle go, satisfied with the previous inspection (found “his” castle) and type:

The city itself has made a favorable impression.

This is our last evening in Ticino, tomorrow Graubünden. And late in the evening we grieved over a glass of wine came out 2 weeks, and so quickly, and discussed that the expectation of the miracle of the miracle is much nicer … well, still have an hour or two of wine glasses sat, still would not have occurred to you …

I do not know the name of the force that does not sit comfortably in place that constantly collects and driving somewhere, driving to see something out there on the corner … There probably is not a force, a well-known object in a certain place. Canton Ticino is the best suited for all the free time on the shores of lakes, especially in the hot summer.

But no, today appeared in the plans a trip to Italy. Early morning on the way stopped at Locarno. The city is not interested, did not make any impression. Would know, even while spending did not.

From via della stazione – funicular to Satuario della Madonna del Sasso, there is an option to reach by car

The purpose of today’s trip was S. Caterina del Sasso, carved into the rock, 18 meters above sea level! The monastery can be reached in two ways: with water from Lesa, Stresa (many centuries it was the only way) or go do Leggiuno and down the stairs almost 300 steps (elevator), which was built temporarily, but there is nothing more permanent than At night time … 1170 Alberto Besozzi, a rich merchant who had miraculously escaped death in the crash of his ship during a storm and took refuge on the rock, and then, being grateful to a man in memory of the event founded a church in honor of the saint. In the XIII century. Dominicans arrived here from 1314 to 1645 by monks from a monastery run by the Milan monastery Sant’Ambrogio ad Nemus, they were replaced by the nuns of the Order of Carmelites. The specific location of the monastery in 1640, played with it a cruel joke: collapsed part of the rock, and after this event, in the name of the monastery came prefix del Sasso (stone). At present the working female monastic Benedictine monastery and at the same time a museum visit is absolutely free. The monastery is open from 8.45 am to 11.30 and from 14.45 to 17.30.

The most interesting part of the Valle Centovalli-Swiss (in Italian continuation of the valley – a val vigezzo): here, and the narrow road and a lot of sharp turns. The train from Locarno to Domodossola be parallel to the motorway. Much of its ways is by viaducts and tunnels. The route is really beautiful. Here, a few small lifts to small villages (Rasa, Corcapolo), which come to life only in the spring and summer. Currently in the plans left by hiking up to Rasa and Intragny Pioda di Crana in the fall. In several places, on roadsides met a strange construction: steel trolley wire and stretching away to somewhere up … wondered for a long time, until we saw this picture: this design a car drove up, with food packages have migrated into this truck and on a miracle, This truck went up, then the same way up and the owner of the machine

The next morning there was a question which way to go in Ticino. In the morning when paying for hotel rooms in reseption routinely asked where we were, where we head now and what we were going to go, we talked about their plans, trying to choose which of two passes: one well-known and loved already Grimselpass (2165), and the second Nufenenpass ( 2478). Mistress of the hotel agreed to both options, but to add that last longer and enjoy it so much faster. And really, how much you can ride the same roads … so was chosen Nufenenpass.
But still as the scenery looks the Swiss village … looking at these houses, constantly gnawing at children’s interest: what’s inside? Local people very kindly treated us and said that their village was built as long ago as the 17th century and was never restored. They probably were willing to talk much, but their level of English as our German allowed only to understand it.

Nufenenpass – uniquely-goal position, almost won the beauty of Grimsel. And yet here is what it is morning! In the daily hell of all this beauty has quickly become a dusty, faded and flat. Again came an irresistible urge to pass it on foot, to hear the new sound – drawn-out, humming and whistling, the wind raznosyaschiesya echoes. They started somewhere overhead in the rays of light grew strong and vital in the elastic movement of air. Feel the new smells … the sun, cloudless height, open space, the rapid flight – movement, as if eternally frozen over the mountains

After an hour and a half or two will end this heavenly pause, and we vedem in Canton Ticino.

Descended from the pass, then the tunnel …. Mystery … this is not Switzerland, not Switzerland. Here everything is different: the light, the mountains and the smells are even speak Italian. Struck by something else: how such a tiny country managed to fit in their own land so different in its essence of culture: a refined French, German rigorous and verified and sprightly Italian. It seemed that sooner or later this explosive mixture to explode Babel, but no … live … live happily ever after …. Thrive, sometimes without even knowing the language of the neighboring canton. And culture is different, the architecture, the people … even though about the people I hot.
In any country there are few places that are unique to her alone and are never to be confused than not. I have no purpose to enumerate the country with their business cards, but Val Verzasca is characterized by its rustic home and accommodations that are used for villas and phantom used to attract tourists. Both are good. In our time, the holders of good taste and country cottages is very popular rustic stil.Harakternaya feature is – an imitation of the surface of a natural material, which is characterized by heterogeneous natural paints, whether stone, wood, plaster or cloth. “The style is described as rustic, simple, and often crude, but in a simple wooden house, he is also relevant, as country music. Special expressiveness to give him pieces of furniture made of natural oshkurennyh and polished logs and poles, rough fabric texture, oven of unpainted brick, and so forth. ” In those ancient times, the poor man had no other way to build a house apart from the gneiss-like rock, which is fully complete in the surrounding mountains …. Luciano, owner of the hotel where we stayed, drew our attention to the narrow little windows, and explained that the tree In those ancient times it was very expensive and people tried to go without frames.

I guess I was in a past life, or an avalanche, or the wind. The main idea of ​​the settlement in Fiesch was hiking up a glacier Aletsch glacier before, which is located on the southern slopes of the Bernese Alps. Details about it will not tell, that would not upset about not done again … but on the morning leg ached unmercifully, so Natalie, a little empathized with me (koneeeechno … itself somewhere else in the evening decided to go to the cities … and the rest of me: smile:) and like a true friend who risked their freedom on that day and took me with him. Pitched solitaire card and chose the Chateau de Chillon, and Vevey, and then – how it goes. Looking ahead, I will … more … did not go. Soooo did not get that carried mindlessly collection days replenished. No, there was no disappointment, either during, and after the time travel that feeling did not arise … It was never a sense that the expected is not justified …. Thus, Chateau de Chillon. At the word “lock” the imagination excessively romantic girls obligingly paints a grim, built of stone blocks independent feudal castle-dwelling: a huge, cold, empty and terrifying at night illuminated by torches. Let the front of it or not, but must be felt that this is exactly the same integral sign chivalrous ages, as heraldry, like steel armor from head to toe covering a rider with a spear, a tournament where the winner chose the queen of love and beauty.

In fact, nothing like there was no … All of this impressed the restaurant than in prison. Tickets to the castle 12 francs, parking along the lake is free. The sooner you draw there (we were about 9.00), the less chance to walk through the castle is surrounded by tourist groups, although there is a second side of the coin: You can join the group and listen to the story … You can rent audio guide is in Russian.
A Lake Geneva … there really is possible to dream of the sea …

Went to lunch in Vevey as always in the pastry shop. Baking in Switzerland amazing, is not possible to stay: Give this and now this, but those three are …: smile: I think it was a Saturday … I do not know how the Swiss have actually evolved but the impression that they are at home on weekends do not eat breakfast, as well as come to the street of coffee, read newspapers, talk …