Weekend in the Tessin

Okay, I have to admit, even if I worked really hard during the weeks I tried to enjoy the weekends.
Especially as during the whole month of August I had a visitor from Russia, Masha, and I really wanted her to enjoy her stay in Switzerland. So all the weekends we travelled to some special places in Switzerland. One of the best trips was for sure the weekend we spent in the holiday-house of a friend of mine on the boardes of the Lago Maggiore in the Tessin. It's incredible how different the Tessin is from the rest of Switzerland. You really feel like in some southern country. There are growing lemons and oranges and other tropical fruits and it is, at least in summer, much wormer. We spent only a day and a half in the small village of Porto Ronco, but it felt like a real, very relaxing holiday. Just sunbathing, swimming, and haning around next to lake. I also tried some windsurfing. I event didn't do it too bad, so it seems as if the windsurf classes I took in June kind of helped.
We also made a small excursion rowing to an island in the middle of the lake. Needs quite a bit of musles, but still, we (Masha and me) really enjoyed it.