Hi all. Janice here again with our next installment.  When last we wrote we had arrived at our rental near Geneva (but we were still in France, a small town called Larringes).

Tuesday, Nov 6th - Guess what?  We woke up to snow.  It wasn't much but it was snow.  By the time we had breakfast and then left to go to Geneva the snow had all melted.  Geneva is a big city with lots of traffic.  We found a place to park and set out to explore a bit.  We stopped to have wine and cheese at a bar and also did some window shopping (couldn't find anything to buy).
We picked up some groceries on our way back to the rental and Ed cooked us dinner.

Wednesday, Nov 7th - We set off for our rental house in Volligen, Switzerland.  We travelled through some beautiful country, the mountains are magnificent.  We stopped in a small town and went to the only restaurant we could find and had chinese food.  It was very good.  We arrived at our rental house about 5:30PM.  We found the key in the mailbox and let ourselves in.  It is a very nice place and it overlooks Lake Lucerne with mountains all around.  Absolutely stunning.  After getting settled, we drove to a small town close by for dinner. 

Thursday, Nov 8th-  We got up, had breakfast and drove to the train station which was right next to the restaurant we were at the night before.  We got a Tell Pass which gives us unlimted travel for 2 days and 50% off for 5 other days.  We took the incline rail train down to the water and then got on a boat (boats are like our ferries to the Island but on a smaller scale).  We got off a few stops later,  transferred to another boat and got off in Vitznau to take a train up to the top of Mount Rigi.  Great views of Lucerne and the mountains and valleys. After a short stay at the top we headed back down and got on a boat to Lucerne.  We wandered around Lucerne for couple of hours, we showed Ed and Sharon the covered bridge, the beautiful church and the lion carved out of the side of a rock.  We ended up in Starbucks for coffee so we could use their internet and caught the 4:15PM boat back to our place.  The mountains, the colours of the trees, the towns are all so picturesque.   It was a very nice day.  We had dinner at the villa and played cards.