July 3 Domodossola (Day 280)
We had over 6 hours of train rides today to get to our destination so we had an early alarm to get packed and find a bite for breakfast before we caught our first train at 9:30. We are heading into the mountains and towards Switzerland!
The green tree-clad jagged mountains were topped with clouds.
We disembarked at Domodossola, a town we have traveled through at least 3 times before, even transferred to other trains here, but never stayed overnight in. We have 2 nights here at a bed and breakfast outside of town.
I’ve always liked the name, Domodossola, it just rolls off the tongue!
We decided to walk to our B&B, about 2 miles out of town, we needed the exercise after sitting on the trains for so long.
As we left the town edge we we passed green fields…
…and crossed the swollen Toce river. There has been so much rain in the southern slopes of the Alps that there was serious flooding in the southern cantons of Switzerland and the northern alpine regions of Italy!
We also passed a quarry carved into a rock cliff, a quarry museum and these carved decorations at the entrance to a villa along the road.
We arrived at our B&B and dropped our packs. It was cool out, not too sunny and we needed some supplies since there was very little in the way of shopping or restaurants out in the country! We decided to walk back into town to the grocery store, and back to the B&B, 6 miles total! It felt great! We had a great home-cooked dinner, a big salad and a good night’s sleep!