We have a small view of Lake Lugano from the little house where we’re staying. It’s outside of Lugano, in an area called Figino; the most direct route into the city or to visit Ramesha’s family is to drive past the shopping center in Grancia then take the autostrada.
But this morning we went the long way around, following the lakeside from Figino to Morcote and on into centro Lugano.
You can see it on the map below. The light red square with the red dot in the middle is the approximate location of our house; the green line is our usual route into Lugano; and the yellow line is what we did today.
Lago di Lugano has quite a funny shape, being rather long and skinny. But that just means there’s a lot of lakeside property for people to enjoy.