If you enjoy a good English breakfast with all the trimmings, come and join us on the last Sunday of every month for this very British meal of :- Orange juice 2 slices of bacon, 2 sausages, 2 eggs, tomato (2 halves), Baked beans, mushrooms, toast Coffee or tea Cost: CHF: 20.- pp Future Brunch Dates: 25 November 2018 Café Papillon, Av. Max Huber 12, 3960 Sierre Reservations to: diane.moretti@gmail.com before Wednesday 21 November please 30 December 2018 Café Papillon, Av. Max Huber 12, 3960 Sierre Reservations to:  deborah.kay65@gmail.com before Wednesday 26 December please 27 January 2019 Café Papillon, Av. Max Huber 12, 3960 Sierre Reservations to: deborah.kay65@gmail.com before Wednesday 23 January please 24 February 2019 Café Papillon, Av. Max Huber 12, 3960 Sierre Reservations to: deborah.kay65@gmail.com before Wednesday 20 February please  

Do not miss this chance to catch up with old and new friends. It has proven to be a real backbone event for the North-West Region and is well attended with always a lot to discuss! Restaurant just opposite to the Swiss railway station. Cost: Pay for what you consume Reservations: Not required  

After last years enjoyable Fondue evening, we are returning to the “Au Vieux Valais Restaurant” in Sion old town, this is a casual, unpretentious spot for Valais dishes including 3-cheese Raclette and various different Fondues plus great wines. Menu: Traditional Valaisan plate to share *** Then choice of Cheese Fondue or Raclette *** Sorbet & Coffee Price: Menu Fondue CHF: 45.- pp  or Menu Raclette CHF: 35.- pp (Drinks not included) Please pay at the event Reservations to: deborah.kay65@gmail.com – by Monday 7th January please

A DAY IN MILAN TO VISIT TWO EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUDEC: THE BANKSY EXHIBITION AND THE PAUL KLEE BENEFITTING FROM A COMBINED TICKET. Date:               Tuesday 15 january 2019 Time:               A full day, leaving on the 8.42 train to Milan, returning                         on the 17.10, arriving 18.18 in Lugano. These trains                         can also be boarded in Mendrisio or Chiasso Place:              Meet on platform, having already acquired your return                         ticket for Milan central station and back at 8.30. Cost :               Combined ticket to the 2 exhibitions at the Mudec, which                         can be bought on line, saving time in the queue, the lunch                         you choose, share of taxi (3 to each taxi) to the Mudec. Reservations to:  Mrs Patty Pellegrini, Via Baroffio 1, 6850 Mendrisio, tel:091 6465352, or to Mrs Penny Osti, tel/fax: 091 9701654. Email: p.osti@bluewin.ch, Mrs Beverly Ortelli, tel: 091 630 0086 e-mail: 1superspider@nluemail.ch  You will have noticed that Banksy has been much in the news recently. We shall proceed immediately from Milano Centrale station by taxi to see this exhibition, as well as the Paul Klee, on a combined ticket, followed by a light lunch in the restaurant/café of the Mudec.Returning to the centre we shall have […]

We meet the last Tuesday of each month, but please phone or e-mail to be sure it is taking place. Place To be decided We have been delighted to know that some members, not in our book club, have also been reading the books we have recommended. Reservations: If you are interested contact Jackie Pearson at: Jackie.pearson@teleport.ch or telephone 061-811-7531 TO BE READ AND DISCUSSED BOOK                                             AUTHOR                               To be discussed The Guernsey Literary and           Mary Ann Schaffer           Potato Peel Pie Society                and Anne Barrows                   18 December 2018 Warlight                                         Michael Ondaatje                    29 January 2019

Do not miss this chance to catch up with old and new friends. It has proven to be a real backbone event for the North-West Region and is well attended with always a lot to discuss! Restaurant just opposite to the Swiss railway station. Cost: Pay for what you consume Reservations: Not required  

For the first time in Europe, Picasso‘s paintings and sculptures, created between 1901 and 1906 will be shown together. The pictures of this creative period are amongst the most beautiful of the modern age and the most valuable works of art in general. At the age of just 20, the up-and-coming artist genius Picasso (1881-1973) embarks on a search for ever-new pictoral themes and forms of expression. The exhibition focuses on the Blue and Pink Periods and thus on a central phase in Picasso’s work. In the touching and enchanting paintings and sculptures of this period, which were produced in Spain and France, 80 will be shown at the exhibition, Picasso arrives at paintings of universal significance. Existential themes such as life, love, sexuality, fate and death find their embodiment in tenderly beautiful, young women and men as well as in children and old people who at the same time carry happiness and joy, but also grief. Definitely an exhibition visit not to be missed. After the visit we will visit the cafeteria for afternoon coffee or tea. Meet: At the entrance to the Fondation at 14h30 Cost: Self-paying Reservations to: Angela Meier-Jones at angiemeier@gmx.ch or tel: 079-322-4452

Autumn colours will fade and soon winter will be upon us. What could be more enjoyable than a cheese fondue at the Petit Hotel in Chaumont Neuchâtel. Cost: Fondue CHF: 23.- Funicular and fondue CHF: 28.- Directions: For those coming by train: Bus No. 107, direction Hauterive, leaves every 10 minutes from the back of the railway station (Gare Nord) and will take you to bus stop La Coudre from where the funicular leaves. As the funicular only runs once an hour and won’t wait, please be in good time. Time: Meet 18.30 at the funicular station in La Coudre, Neuchatel Parking: There is plenty of parking next to the funicular station and/or the hotel for those coming by car. Reservations to: Joy Sandoz on 032 753 11 39 or joy.sandoz@gmail.com  by 6 February please    

By popular request we will be holding our spring luncheon once again at the Rebstock, the prices and quality of food unbeatable. Hopefully we will be able to have a speaker who can help us understand about Brexit March 2019! Cost: self-paying Reservations to: Angela Meier-Jones at angiemeier@gmx.ch or tel: 079-322-4452

Reservations to: Mrs Patty Pellegrini, Via Baroffio 1, 6850 Mendrisio, tel:091 6465352, or to Mrs Penny Osti, tel/fax: 091 9701654. Email: p.osti@bluewin.ch, Mrs Beverly Ortelli, tel: 091 630 0086 e-mail: 1superspider@nluemail.ch This famous garden in Vico Morcote suffered serious damage in the recent violent storms in Ticino and Northern Italy, as you can read in the following report. 29th October 2018  Waterfall Plaza.  Vico  Morcote. Much rain today and the wind seems to be picking up. Opening the kitchen door on Monday Morning our view across Lake Lugano seemed somewhat different. We could now see the Hotel, Cafe and cable car of the Monte Generoso on the opposite side of the Lake. The difference being that the magnificent Magnolia Grandiflora which blocked our view when in leaf or bloom had disappeared overnight. Unfortunately the garden has also lost 5 large Magnolia and until the clear up has taken place we still cannot estimate what has been lost beneath the fallen trees.  Parco San Grato in CARONA has also suffered, as has the Lake side in Figino which looks absolutely devastated. although these are small losses compared to the loss of life and the millions of trees lost in Northern Italy […]