March 29 & 30, 2015 short hike and grocery shopping!

Along our mountainside....

The last couple of days we worked on getting our legs into Swiss mode - lots of ups and downs! Oh boy, my shins and calves ache! All will be normal feeling in just a few days. We took a hike on my 30 minute route on the mountainside by our house. Lots of goats wanderiNo problem for the goat and the dog passing on the path! 

 I love all the moss, and the fact that the trees don't have all their leaves yet - it lets me see the mountains in the distance! 

 Seriously, this goat walked right up to me and looked into the camera! 

 I love this time of year with all the little wildflowers. This one is called Primula - Primrose. 

So we hiked down the mountainside to the big Carrefour supermarket - the largest in Lugano. They had a section with these packages of sliced deli meats, as I was looking for something to make sandwiches with for our hike tomorrow. This one is Lardo Salate - salted lard - seriously,  it's slices of white fat. Really? That's the stuff I take off and throw away! How foolish of me! Can't imagine making a sandwich with this. Ugh. 

As Easter is coming, Panettone bread is popular again. This one was huge and weighed at least 5 lbs!