We arrived without incident in Locarno yesterday. We didn’t take Ayla with us when we checked in but we ran into the owners over the course of the afternoon anyway. They didn’t seem too alarmed by her size although she massively dwarfed their 4 kg Chihuahua. After we got settled in, we decided to head […]

We didn’t actually see any accidents or anything but we did slow down quite a bit while in the tunnel. So now we’ll all take a quick break, call the apartment owners to let them know we’re cutting close and take a potty break…and then get on our way. Only about an hour left.

We’re waiting at the lights to go into the Gotthard tunnel…finally! It should be smooth sailing from here. We’ll make another switch on drivers after this since all the stop and go has killed S’s legs…so we’ll make a quick pit stop at the first place we find after the 17 km tunnel is over…

Well, it’s almost 1 pm and we’re not yet to Locarno. We’ve got 102 km left according to TomTom which should only take us about an hour…but we’re a few km from the start of the tunnel with full traffic jam. The problem is that they regulate the number of cars that go into the […]

So we’re on our way to Locarno and are about half way there. Our navigation system says we have a little less than 3 hours left which would get us there at about 1 pm. With any luck, this will actually turn out to be true and we can perhaps get in a bit of […]