Yesterday we arrived in lake como which is a huge lake in Italy, a girl we met in a hostel in Florence is living here and told us it was beautiful so we figured we would check it out. We haven't had a chance to met up with her though, although im hoping we can. We're going to extend our stay here a bit because today we went to Switzerland, and didn't den up seeing any of lake como, expect through a bus ride to the border. Surprise, surprise it's raining today...it better stop raining soon because I'm getting awfully tired of it.
We went to a town called lagano in Switzerland, which is near the border of Italy, the drive there was beautiful and intense. The roads are through all these huge mountains and in some parts the street us only wide enough for one car to pass through. So while we were on the bus the bus driver just kept honking his horn before we would get to a part of the street that only fit one car. It was such a thight fit that I honestly have no idea how the mirrors on the bus weren't scraping on the mountian side. It was such a beautiful drive, mountains on one side and a huge lake on the other. When we got to the Switzerland I actually didn't realize that they had their own currency, that it wasn't part of the EU, which means they don't use euros. They use Swiss franks, another thing that perplexed me was I had absolutely no idea what language they spoke beucase it was so close to the Italian border. They seem to have spoken Italian for the most part. But some store names were in German, and the movies in the chocolate factory were in French. Switerzland actually has four national languages! Went didn't know what we should do once we got to lagano because we reall didn't know much about it, so we went to the tourism booth and asked what was good on a rainy day. He told us there was a chocolate factory, so we thought hey great! Perfect for a rainy day, all we had to do was find the train to take us to this other town...and hour and a half later...we found the stupid trian. We asked a ton of people how to get to the fanacuilar to get to the top of the mountian to catch the train, every single person pointed us in different directions. So I'm only assuming they didn't really know and felt compeld to help anyway. Finally we found someone who walked us pretty much to it which as very nice of them. The sad thing Is, is that we walked by it accidently like three times! Of course leave it to us! We made it to the little town that the chocolate factory was in and found it no problem. I absolutely love Swiss chocolate, between the three of us I would say we bought around 3kilos! I think we're set for chocolate for a bit.
After the chocolate factory we went for some lunch at a little cafe and hooped on the bus back to lake como. We just stuck around the hostel for the night, hung out with some people, drank some wine and had a good time.
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