Last Day in Europe

On Sunday, August 29, we woke up in Winkel, Switzerland.

[09:47] A pleasant surprise – We paid 90CHF for hotel  Landgasthof Breiti, but I was expecting something around 130 CHF.

[10:14] It is  Sunday, but Airport Gas Station is opened and there are no lines. Here we paid 79.55 CHF for 48.79 litters  (1.63 CHF/L).  Let’s compare this to some prices we saw 2 days ago on a Swiss-Italian border in Chiasso.

I was making this picture to compare gasoline prices later. Only now I noticed that this picture actually captures a plaque stating “Guinness World Record in High Fuel” (nel risparmio di carburante).  I have no idea, what does it mean.

[11:29]  Starbucks at the Airport Kloten -16.80 CHF

[13:55] Flight from Zurich (Kloten) to New York (JFK)

Delta flight was almost painless.  Every seat had a personal monitor with a touch screen.  Almost entire time we played Game Trivia against other passengers on the plane.

[Eastern Time Zone] We didn’t have any bags checked in.  Only carry-on items.  Instead of waiting 4 hours for our next flight, we jump the ship to an earlier flight from New York to Boston.  Fantastic!

[20:32-20:51] Taxi ride from the Logan Airport – $54.30

Back to work.  However, a long Labor Day weekend is just around the corner.  I will use this opportunity to conquer Pemigewasset Wilderness (see article here at http://www.domainwebcenter.com/?p=268)

The End

We spent 2 weeks in Switzerland and Italy.  It took 3 month to write this report about it.  A very slow deliberate process. Every day several hour a day.  Meanwhile, I learned a lot of tricks on how to arrange images and captions, how to edit and combine images in Photoshop, the true value of Firefox spell check, and how to combine a number of articles into a series.

This Web Publishing is truly amazing apparatus to express the untold stories and memories.

Navigate through the List

1. 01 Preparation for the Swiss Trip in August 2010 (2017/07/25)
2. 02 August 14-15, 2010: Zurich (2017/07/29)
3. 03 August 16-17, 2010: Luzern - Bern - Fribourg (2017/08/02)
4. 04 August 18-19, 2010: Fribourg – Montreux (Nabokov) – Geneva (2017/08/06)
5. 05 August 20, 2010 - Wake in Switzerland, Eat in France, Sleep in Italy (2017/08/10)
6. 06 August 21,2010: It’s a Mountain Time – Rifugio Monzino (2017/08/14)
7. 07 August 22, 2010: Genova – Columbus and Paganini (2017/08/18)
8. 08 August 23, 2010: Camogli – San Fruttuoso – Portofino and Back (2017/08/22)
9. 09 August 24, 2010: From Mediterranean to Lake Como and Bellagio (2017/08/26)
10. 10 August 25, 2010: Around Bellagio - Pescallo, Regatola, S. Giovanni (2017/08/30)
11. 11 August 26, 2010: Back to Switzerland - Airolo (2017/09/03)
12. 12 August 27, 2010: St. Gotthard Pass and Lake Lucendro (2017/09/07)
13. 13 August 28, 2010: Seewen - Rapperswil-Jona - Winkel (2017/09/11)
14. 14 August 29, 2010: The End - From Zurich to Boston (2017/09/15)