Day 3: Maggiatal / Valle Maggia – Ticino, Switzerland.

The end of a vacation is always sad, isn’t it? Whenever I am out on a vacation, I wish I don’t have to go home so quickly. There was only one memory of my travels that I want to cut short the trip and go home immediately. It was a work trip. I understand that it was a work trip not a vacation but we worked so hard. Meetings for 8 hours, socializing after work and catching up with work again when we were back in hotel. Some of the people (co-workers) we met were not entirely friendly which actually made the trip terrible. It’s the people that matters. Whether you are abroad or in a premise like restaurants, hotels etc. To cut the story short, I was glad to be home after that stint.

AN OVERVIEW OF MAGGIA

Since we have to catch the bus at around 13:00, we did not do anymore hiking. Our host was kind to drive us and show us of the valley. We saw pictures taken by our host of a modernized church in the mountain. We decided to head up to have a look at this beautiful piece of art. It was very cold that day. It was so windy. I have been having hay fever the entire trip which I only found out when I got home. Hay fever is completely foreign to me. I won’t know I have one even when I have one. I thought I caught cold but it cleared up as soon as we got back to Zürich. The drive up north of the valley is an interesting one. Some crazy drivers up there. The roads are narrow and winding but people drive like they are filming  Fast and Furious without the drifting. It’s mad.

There were a few small villages North of the Valley. We drove past a small village which has a pillory by the road side. A pillory is a punishment method by chaining a criminal/offender to a pole or wall in the public, for the public viewing as a form of reminder and public humiliation. The chained person might suffer physical injury from aggressive public. For eg; stoning or physical assault. The method of punishment was abolished in the 19th century.