{"id":50,"date":"2007-05-12T22:46:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-05-12T22:46:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T12:46:25","slug":"christmas-in-europe-yes-its-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/christmas-in-europe-2006\/christmas-in-europe-yes-its-christmas-day","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Europe &#8211; Yes it&#039;s Christmas Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Our journey this morning took us from Firenze to Lucerne.\u00a0 We had our usual morning stop, lunch stop in Switzerland and arrived at Lake Lucerne in the early afternoon\u00a0to do our lake cruise.\u00a0 It was grey and foggy and I wondered if there was any point in doing a cruise in this bad weather.\u00a0 No one else appeared to have shared my whimpy thoughts and\u00a0the cruise proceeded.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The boat captain reckoned that it was 0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00ba<\/span>C on the lake and\u00a0with the windchill factor it felt much colder.\u00a0 A few of us decided to brave the cold and stayed on\u00a0the open\u00a0deck.\u00a0\u00a0It must be wonderful doing this cruise in warmer weather.<\/p>\n<p>After the cruise, we were happy to be back on the coach to defrost a little.\u00a0 We were dropped off in the city and by foot we made our way, a\u00a0little north of L\u00f6wenplatz, to\u00a0visit the famous Lion Monument (L\u00f6wendenkmal).\u00a0 This huge\u00a0figure of a dying lion, carved out of the rock face,\u00a0was to commemorate the heroic\u00a0death of the Swiss Guards (26 officers and over 700 troops) who were killed during the attack on the Tuileries during the French Revolution (1792).<\/p>\n<p>Our hotel in Lucerne was the Hotel Astoria.\u00a0 Although quite central, it was away from the old town.\u00a0 It was also very much in renovation mode.\u00a0 Being Christmas night, we had drinks in the penthouse and Kris Kringle presents were distributed.\u00a0 Dinner was in-house tonight.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t remember too much about the meal, but I do remember the nice waiter feeling sorry for us and he smuggled in two cups of\u00a0espressos from the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey this morning took us from Firenze to Lucerne.\u00a0 We had our usual morning stop, lunch stop in Switzerland and arrived at Lake Lucerne in the early afternoon\u00a0to do our lake cruise.\u00a0 It was grey and foggy and I wondered if there was any point in doing a cruise in this bad weather.\u00a0 No [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-in-europe-2006"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas in Europe - Yes it&#039;s Christmas Day! 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