Today Irene and Luca left early to catch their flight to Athens. We went hiking with Manuela, one of Irene’s 5 sisters. It was a beautiful day for a hike.
We left Irene’s house around 9. Manuela doesn’t live very far but there are no direct roads so it took us about an hour and a half to get to Lachen. We had a coffee at her apartment before driving to the trail head.
Our 3 hour hike took us up and down the hills of Switzerland as we walked to our lunch spot, a restaurant that serves alpine rösti. Unfortunately we arrived at the restaurant only to discover it was closed. 🤨 So we hiked back down to the car with empty stomachs. Here are some pictures from our hike.
We drove to a nearby town, Einsiedeln, to find some lunch. We had lunch at a nice outdoor Italian restaurant.
Einsiedeln is the home of the Einsiedeln Abbey, a Benedictine monastery which was established in 934. After lunch we visited the monastery. Here are some pictures.
Then we drove back to Lachen but not without a stop at the Lindt factory store where we bought some chocolate truffles that we couldn’t get at home.
We dropped Manuela off at her house and returned to Irene’s. Marco is still around because he has to work tomorrow and then is flying to Athens to meet up with the rest of the gang. We visited with him a little before going to bed.