MONDAY 2nd JULY 2012LUCERNE 2Still raining a bit this morning, with low heavy clouds. A real b***** as today we doing a Lake cruise and then a cable car ride up to the Stanserhorn. Once on the bus we drove a short distance to a wharf on Lake Lucerne and boarded a nice launch that took us on a lovely cruise along the Lake to Sanstedt. Although it was still raining a bit and the cloud was right down on the surrounding mountains it was very calm and peaceful.The coa...

SUNDAY 1st JULY 2012LUCERNE First day of July! Where did June go???? Very glad to get on the bus this morning and get away from the dreaded Bon Alpina Hotel!We drove a short distance to another little village and got onto a couple of large horse drawn wagons for a tour around some very old farms and the little town.We passed houses that had been built six hundred years ago and were still lived in by locals and saw a dairy farm with about nine cows! When I asked a...