We started off today with a nice breakfast then had an hour free time before we did the gold round trip. This involved taking the boat on Lake Lucerne, then the cog railway (the steepest railway) unbelievable views going up Mt Pilatus 7000 feet high. We get up the top and there are lots of walks, we do some walks, have a hot chocolate which I guess takes up about 2 hrs. Then we get in a gondola to come back down. The first gondola is quite big and holds about 20...

Today we left Lake Como after a beautiful breakfast. We were collected at 10.30 by the cab driver we had teed up the previous night. We got on the train at Como and then needed to change trains at Lugano to go to Lucerne. Police did get on the train which was a concern for Liz and Danos with no passports. All went smoothly and arrived in Lucerne about 3.30 and to our delight found out our hotel was 5 mins from the station. We checked in and went for a walk, we c...