A full day out, meeting for car sharing 8.30am in Lugano, Returning 19.00 Lugano. 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, pattypellegrini@hotmail.com Mrs Penny Osti, tel/fax: 091 9701654. Email: p.osti@bluewin.ch Mrs Beverly Ortelli, tel: 091 630 0086 e-mail: 1superspider@bluemail.ch
Bring your guests, children or grandchildren, to enjoy the museum with us. It was created from 1935 in one of the old buildings of the border-control customs, but transformed into a inter-active museum in 1994. It is only accessible by boat, and tells us about all the smuggling that used to go on, amongst other things. We can buy drinks and something to nibble at the Grotto Teresa or the Grotto Descanso. For the full lunch, it would be best to book. There is the option of bringing a sandwich to eat on the boat or in the garden next to the museum. The museum opens at 13.30. Meet in Lugano by the lake-side at the main Navigazione Lugano embarcation, to buy the return tickets, ready to catch the 12.15pm boat across the lake to the Cantina di Gandria, arriving 12.54. Returning on the 15.02 or 15.53, arriving back in Lugano at 15.40 or 16.40. Cost : If we are 10 or more we get a special rate of CHF: 22.- If you have the half price yearly card for the trains, you pay half price. Children under 6 pay CHF: 5.- The boat ticket can vary between CHF: 27.60 and […]
Marie-Laure Bosco has booked the small round terrace overlooking the garden where our tea or drinks would be served. This would be an opportunity to get together informally after the holidays, in a lovely setting, to catch up on news and make plans for future outings together. Marie-Laure has also found us the possibility of a minibus and driver or a small bus, for our days away visiting within a couple of hours or so of Lugano. I have been in touch with this company, and have now been sent some quotes for 3 possible days out : Pavia/Vigevano, Turin and surroundings and Piacenza. I now need a clear idea of your interest and commitment, since we would need to pay in advance for the minibus & driver. Cost: According to your choice of drink Reservations to: Mrs Patty Pellegrini, Via Baroffio 1, 6850 Mendrisio, tel:091 6465352, pattypellegrini@hotmail.com Mrs Penny Osti, tel/fax: 091 9701654. Email: p.osti@bluewin.ch Mrs Beverly Ortelli, tel: 091 630 0086 e-mail: 1superspider@bluemail.ch
J.M.W. Turner, the world famous English painter, travelled around Switzerland several times in search of spectacular motifs. While doing so, he visited Lucerne repeatedly to study the unique interplay of light and weather, lake and mountains there. He captured his impressions in sketches and vibrant watercolours. These observations and depictions both of the sea, during his crossing to the continent, and of the alps were of major importance for Turner, in them the beauty and dangers of nature combine directly with the theme of the sublime, which was of fundamental significance for Romanticism. Cost: Self Paying Event As many of you have a train or museum pass this will be a self-paying event. We will be having lunch at the museum, this will be booked in advance. Members from Ticino and Grisons Region Time : 8.43 train from Lugano to Luzern, returning on 16.18 train arriving 18.18 Place : Meet on platform main train station in Lugano with your return ticket. Reservations to: Please send the application to Angela Meier-Jones, e-mail angiemeier@gmx.ch or tel: 079-322-4452 Before 15 September 2019, or as soon as possible to enable us to finalise the arrangements.
