A very long and hot day

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August 6th

Distance:  35,4 km
Time:  10 hours 40 minutes (including 1 hour 40 minutes for the stops)
Vertical distance:  1350 m uphill;  1410 m downhill

Well, I did have this idea that we should “catch up” for the time lost yesterday with the car battery.  Peter and I managed it, under very hot, heatwave like conditions!

The Mendrisio hotel only served breakfast at 7 a.m.,  so we were only able to set off at 8.40 from Terniciolo on Lake Lugano (Ceresio).  We passed the twin summits of Poncione d’Arza (1015 m), then descended towards Arza, San Pietro and Stabio.

We then covered the whole southern border up to the most southerly point of Switzerland (south of the village of Pedrinate) and from there to Chiasso station.

Night:  Albergo Milano, Mendrisio

Photos:

1.  and 2.  Two old frontier markers
3.  Peter at Switzerland’s most southerly point

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