Zagreb 2 Brescia 13.12.12

Zagreb was cold, a goodly amount of snow, and a well kept secret, it is a beautiful and friendly city.

I left in the morning about 8 AM and headed for Brescia Italy, as it turned out, a 7 hour drive.

Not much to say other than the weather made driving testy mostly.

 Heading out of Zagreb in the early morn

 Crossing into Slovenia from Croatia

 one of many tunnels in Slovenia

 Now entering Italy at the Slovenian border

 Italia at last!

 Coming into Brescia

 My short overnight stay in a Best (Worst) Western Hotel

in Brescia

 Brescia Castle, The Falcon of Lombardy

 Heading to Lugano Switzerland from Brescia

 OK OK, so I got lost in the white out fog and had to divert 20 miles to get back on the Autostrada going to Lugano; but I still know Vector Calculus, Perturbation Theory and Quantum Physics, and you probably don't. LOL

 Road toll gates, one of too many

 Now in Switzerland, only 30 minutes away from Lugano

 The tunnel leading into South Lugano

 My room in the Hotel Victoria in Paradiso

 Now for the beautiful lake front views of Lugano-Paradiso

11 AM Saturday 15 December 2012

 Looking out of my terrace door

 The peaks of Mt. Ticino

 Lake Lugano, a glacier lake

 The giant water spout directly across the street

 I'll bet!

 Palm trees thriving in the Lugano winter

 Then about 2 PM the clouds broke and it became sunny

 Hotel Victoria

 The hotel room corridors reminds me of the film "The Shining." YIKES! And it wasn't enough that I was in Transylvania recently.

 If I see two little girl twins, I'll shyte!

 I miss me bike

 There are 4 of these water rainy do dahs in the entrance of this fancy shmancy hotel a few blocks away

 A bold lad indeed

 I miss my Einstein

 A leg of lamb in the Manor Department Store food shop area

 I just couldn't resist

 The last time I saw this tree, it was being lowered by a heliocopter

 WHO DAT?

Good night from

Lugano-Paradiso Switzerland

Cheers,

me