Day 2- Lucerne

Hi all you intrepid followers!  We made it to Lucerne......in our 2nd class 1st  class carriage!  Yes, we were supposed to be in 1st class but completely missed the two carriages at the front of the train and ended up in the last carriage in 2nd class.  However, all was well as we were the only ones in there apart from one brave fellow traveler!  Lucerne is lovely, much better than where we stayed last night in Basel, where we witnessed some poor soul getting a kicking outside the train station and when we walked down the road every one of the shop front windows looked like they had been attacked with a hammer or a hand gun!!

Today we wandered slowly around Lucerne taking in the sights.  First we had breakfast/brunch in a small bar where we ordered what we thought was sausage, eggs and whatever it was we couldn't pronounce on the menu.  Only to find out that we had coffee, croissants , bread and jam!  Oh well, the joys of traveling. Nothing is in English and they seem to speak a lingo all there own which we have christened swingo or swerman as it is a combination of German and something completely different!

We are getting by and wondering what dinner has in store for us!  We struck lucky last night and went for a pizza......ordered pasta....but it was the best that any of us had ever had so we were well chuffed.  We went into an Irish bar today......yes I know, not very Swiss, but the beer was cheap and we had three ltrs of the stuff, before getting back to the hotel and now everyone is snoozing while I update the blog.I'm having trouble uploading the pics we took today, but hope to have this sorted soon.  In the meantime, here is a picture of the river through Lucerne which running mighty fast!