Last full week of training and it couldn’t come fast enough. To make the week more interesting, I had to work training around Chris’ visit and the weather. So I had lots of time for him, I did my two harder hikes before he came, starting with a 3100 altitude gain on Monday up to Frakmuntegg and a 2100 on Tuesday most of the way up the same route. Wednesday morning I was at the gym before going to the airport to meet him. Since these are routes I’ve done before, it was the first time I didn’t take any pictures, so it must be time to finish training:)
One of our favorite things to do is eat out and Lucerne has great food. So Wednesday night we ate at the AlpHotel where we shared a wiener schnitzel - no photos of that either:). We must have been looking into each other’s eyes and not thinking about photos.
Each morning we walked next door to the Migros to get some fresh rolls for breakfast, no photos of these either….
Thursday, my normal day off, was the one day of his visit with some reasonable weather, so we walked up for a 1100 elevation gain to Sonnenberg. Even though he does little exercise, Chris still walked at a pace that pushed me to the limit. The only advantage I see is that I am not stiff the next day, but he is….The really strange thing is that there were no cows, so some of the ambience was lost.
That evening we went out for pizza to the purported best pizza restaurant in Lucerne called Bestia Pizza Pizza. It was very nice pizza, but we shouldn’t have ordered the starter which I thought was a salad, but was enough for 4 people as a main course. Luckily, there’s a tradition here to take left overs home, which we did and I am still eating it up.
I took Friday and Saturday off, vowing to go to the gym after he left on Sunday (which I did). Friday we went out to dinner for Fondue and had cheese fondue and racklette - so please don’t take my cholesterol for awhile. It was wonderful, but, again, I just finished the left overs from that meal too.
We did some sightseeing among the raindrops:
And on Saturday night we had a very special evening with a meal at the old Chalet, where we had starters of herring and house made cheese crockettes along with Weiner Schnitzels cooked at our table and, because gluttony is our favorite Sin we had crepes souzettes, also cooked at our table by a buxom waitress in a dirndle. The perfect end to a great visit!
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