08/08/24 Port Basel, Switzerland

Thursday, August 8, 2024 - How is it time to be kicked off the boat already?! NOOOO!!!!

It was with great sadness that we left our floating luxury cruiser. It was so nice to have someone make and clean up every meal, even have snacks sometimes too! And mock-tails at 6 p.m. if we wanted them...every night. Not to mention doing our laundry and making our bed, cleaning our bathroom and turning down our pillow each night and placing a chocolate on our pillow. I just didn't want to leave! It went so fast!

BUT...that being said...the after tour was the grand finale to an amazing adventure!

After sadly leaving the boat, we loaded all our luggage into our tour bus and headed to The Old Town, The splaentor. We saw Lucerne - the Lion Monument and had lunch at a riverside restaurant. We saw Chapel Bridge and then went to our hotel.

We stayed at the Astoria Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland. We walked around Lucerne and found a local restaurant.

Tour bus in style

Trash is different there. You purchase these
bags for $3 each. Then you put them out each
week for collection.

more beautiful graffiti

The Friends bar!
How cool is that?

Gwen and Sandy

Movie Theater

Cool water feature fountain

Found another creepy decoration

riverside luncheon

Sandy

Carmen and Sandy

Sweet couple
Wish I could remember their names

Ralph, Carmen, Sandy

Lion's Monument

Chapel Bridge

Ellie and Mike

Picture of luggage in case it gets lost

Ominous sign at our hotel

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