Waking up in Switzerland. Evening in Venice.

“...what thrills me about trains is the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.” ― Marianne Wiggins

Friday November 2, 2018. We wake as it’s getting light and slowly collect our thoughts. When we finally get up we thead to the bar car where they are serving morning coffee. Our cabin steward makes our cabin into its day configuration and after a while brings us a continental breakfast. We savor the food and the scenery as we travel through the Swiss alps in alternating sun, clouds and an occasional shower.

Coffee in the bar car

Soon it's time for lunch and we dine alone for this meal. The meal is inspiring as is all the food we have had. We begin to realize that we can’t eat much more. We have a bit of down time in the afternoon as we enter Italy. We are offered afternoon tea, but settle for coffee and no food. It has dawned on us that our journey is coming to an end. We pull into Santa Lucia station and Venice where we will transfer to our apartment in Venice.

Duckling Duo in cranberry reduction sauce, quinoa with pistacchio oil and pumpkin. 

Our journey is coming to an end. We pull into Santa Lucia trainstation in Venice where we will transfer to our apartment in Venice. This entails getting a water taxi because there are no roads or cars in Venice. Plus this is all done in the dark.

Train station during day light.

The transfer didn’t go to smoothly as the cell phone wouldn’t connect to get GPS map. After some confusion our host walks to meet us at the water taxi stop. After a short walk at a fast pace we are in our apartment. Taking some deep breaths we go to a small restaurant about 20 feet from the door to our apartment for some nice pasta and wine. We fall asleep leaving one adventure for another.