Postcards of San Marino to Strasbourg

 San Marino to Strasbourg is a long way - with Italy and  Switzerland in between. F said Mr B drove all of it and even after 9 hours didn't get upset when my van turned out to be too tall for the inner city parking they had booked and they had to go out to a 'park and ride'.

For info: if you ever drive to Strasbourg use the park and ride. Inner city parking is VERY expensive. The park and ride is 1/5th the price and includes return fares on their very efficient tram system for up to 7 people on the same ticket. F said the tram was quicker into the town centre than it had been driving back out to the open carpark.

I haven't ridden on a tram either, but F tells me that Piraeus has now been joined onto the Athens tram system so we can remedy that when she gets back.

My postcards today are Italian design, Swiss engineering, and mountains.  There are lots of mountains in Switzerland. I remember that from when we came to Greece.  I also recall that they had many, many tunnels, including one so long I wondered if we would ever see daylight again (or find ourselves locked in eternal combat with a Balrog.)

Italian railway station

Swiss design (and Fs hand)

Forsythia, bright on Swiss motorway roadsides

OK this was leaving a San Marino fuelling station. No pretending oil based fuel is green, but they did put a glamorous cat on it.....