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 […]
Time: 12:15 drinks for 13:00 lunch Place: Hotel Lido Seegarten in Casserate Cost: CHF 72 members, CHF 78 non-members. Please pay in advance to the BRA Post Office account. Aperitifs at own cost. No shows will be charged. 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 Should you wish to reserve a room at the Hotel the phone number is 091 0736363 This will be our traditional spring lunch with roast lamb and mint sauce. Menu will be following :-
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 […]
Date: early April 2019 Time: a full day out, meeting for car sharing 8.30am in Lugano, Returning 19.00 Lugano Place : Drive to Laveno to put the cars on the boat to do the short Crossing of Lago Maggiore (20 minutes) to Intra, then drive The few kilometers along to Taranto. This garden was created by Captain Neil Boyd Watson McEacharn between the two world wars. Cost : return ticket on boat, entrance to Villa Taranto and cost of Whatever lunch you choose. 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