Finally we got a good nights sleep and we woke up and it wasn’t raining! We really wanted to go to Mt Titlis and walk across the highest suspension bridge in the world but when we checked the webcams it was all fogged in 😒. So instead we decided to go down to Lake Como in Italy. It was about a two and a half hour drive.
The road over the Gotthard pass is still closed due to snow so we went through the tunnel which is 10.5 miles long, quite an engineering feat. Here are pictures of what we went under on our ride through the tunnel.
We arrived in Como around lunch time. We walked along the lake for awhile and then found a nice sidewalk cafe for lunch. I had lasagna and Rick had risotto with fresh perch from the lake. It was really very good.
After lunch we walked a little further around the lake, watching the hydrofoil boats and sea planes. It was sunny and warm. You can really see the affect the mountains have on the weather. The clouds can’t pass over the mountains so they just get stuck in Switzerland. Here are some pictures from our day.
We returned to the car and drove back. We hit some traffic at the tunnel and then took the wrong exit near Arth, but we made it home safely.