Wednesday, June 20, 2012

More time with my parents

My parents enjoyed the rest of their time here with us and Ben. On Saturday, we went to Switzerland for the afternoon. We drove around the eastern side of Lago Maggiore, took some pictures and watched some windsurfers, stopped at Aldi, and finally arrived in Bellinzona, to go to the castles.

 We definitely want to try windsurfing sometime.
 Lago Maggiore


There are three castles in this Swiss town. We first went to the oldest, then walked up a looong path of stairs to the middle castle, where they were having a medieval festival. We were running short on time and energy and decided not to take the even longer walk to the third castle.
Castelgrande, the oldest and largest






 View of the middle castle from the first castle.


 View of the 3rd castle from the first.



At the middle castle, Montebello, they were having a medieval festival.


 On a drawbridge




We came back to Italy and had dinner at our favorite pizza place in Gallarate, Fabbrica Pizza. Sunday, we showed my parents our grocery store.  They had one more day in Gallarate, and left on Tuesday.  They finally made it home late, late that night.

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