Last day in Switzerland - Lucerne

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Tomorrow we have an early start, but today we could sleep in. We met for breakfast about 8am. Clay & I went down earlier to online check in and print boarding passes for us all on Iceland Air. Breakfast had begun at 6:30am and it ended at 9am. They were slowly closing down as we arrived. We missed the crowd. We headed out about 10am to catch city bus 6 oro 8 to Schwanen Platz to walk to Schweizerhof Hotel to catch the 11am City Train. It was sunny and very hot again today. Though honestly, we felt it all night without AC in the hotel. A Swiss woman who explained the bus to us all also explained this extended heat wave is causing serious problems as far north as Sweden. We all enjoyed the city train 40-minute ride. We covered more ground than we'd have on foot and it got us out of the sun. The commentary was helpful too. Stephane added a 13:35pm 30-minute walking tour. 3 of us met him and he walked us to the restaurant where about 8 of us joined him. It went a lot longer than a half hour and we dropped out before he finished. It covered a lot of the same ground and information but we got to enter the Jesuit Church. We saw a tunic in a chapel from the 1470's that were worn by the only Swiss saint, Klaus. Stephane said the reformation never took in Lucerne and that all the Swiss Guards in the Vatican come from Lucerne.We will see the Lion Monument and hear more before dinner.

I am going to assume there will be nothing noteworthy this evening and post this now.

We start flying home in the morning. Fingers crossed it goes more smoothly than getting over here!

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