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Monday 17 June 2019

Day 21 - St Moritz - June 17

Early morning train from Varenna to Tirano.
At the railway station (and everywhere around italy) this little pot plant with maiden hair fern and convovulus (both of which I fail to keep alive) growing quite happily.
Great Italian design - space on the saucer for the spoon! 
At Torino we boarded the Bernina Express. A world famous train ride through the Bernina mountains. It is very steep riding 70metres in 1 km and has lots of winding curves to enable the train to achieve this.  Bearing in mind the photos are from a moving train, behind glass (even though they are special panoramic windows) and you don’t get any warning of upcoming views these are the photos. It was beautiful. Much steeper than it looks.
Pilgrimage Church Madonna di Tirano built in 1505. 
The idea on these curves is to get a photo of our train going around the curve! Luckily we are in 1st class (a car near the end) so I managed this!