A Day on the Town in Locarno

This day was still gray but not too wet. We decided to stay and explore the old town. After the main shopping areas, we took a street map and wandered. We found the Cathedral of St. Francis named after Francis of Assisi and went inside. The history was on a plaque on a rear wall, and like all these churches, it was strikingly beautiful. This one was 700+ years old. It was a good place to meditate about friends and children lost.

After our visit there, we wandered some of the narrow streets above the main part. There were a lot of stores and restaurants along this way. Then of course, we had to hit some of the local markets. We found one practically in our front yard and went in out of curiosity. It was a Dominican Republic grocery run by a man from the DR who had been in CH for 20+ years and three wives. He spoke good English, and we walked out with a bargain kilogram of nice frozen shrimp (14 CHF for a kilo). Then we went back home and played Jass. Jass is the national pastime in CH, and we are slowly learning.