Lugano, Switzerland

If you are in Milan, the best thing you can do is to to travel to city LUGANO, its in north of Italy and less than 100 Km from Milan.

The easiest way is to take a direct train from MILAN CENTRAL STATION (centrale) to Lugoano , which takes nearly hour

Milan railway station (centrale)

Train at Milan

and 10 min and cost 23 Euro one way. The train is fast and run German and Italian company. There are many options of train but better take the train which is going to Zurich and Lugano is a stop in between,

 Lugano Train Station

Lugano train station

View from the train

Its a  small city surrounded by white top mountains and three sides covered with the Lugano lake, the lake is huge enough to give a view of a sea. The nature, cleanliness and street view is just marvelous and can't be expressed in words.

 Street view Lugano

Walking towards the Lake

From the train station, take the exit from the right (the main building) and go down the street till towards the lake, it takes nearly 10 min to reach to the lake by walking. The streets have old style shops and beautifully decorated cafes. There is McDonald just in front of the lake view. 

Restaurant on the streets of Lugano

 Lake 

food street 

Pumpkin sweet selling on the street

Walk as much as you can on the pedestrian walk lanes near the lake and every view is spectacular. Don't forget to walk inside the town center and small streets connecting the center hall, there are multiple street vendors and shops which offers some unique things like food and souvenirs. When you get tired then walk to the shopping mall named MANOR LUGANO, it has 5 floors and sells almost everything from electronics, cosmetics to clothing, There is also a supermarket in the -1 floor and you can find many cheap swiss/Italian chocolates and snacks.

Manor shopping mall

There are many things to see in the city and main attraction can be seen within 4 hours but time spent  sitting next to lake and enjoying the lake view is just uncountable. 

 Foutain next the lake and good wished from me ( have a wonderful travel)

Prague to Liberec

Liberec

Liberec is small town (5th latgest of Czech)of Prague situated north of the country near the border of Germany and Poland. Mainly people comes here for Technical university of Liberec or Skiing on the Jested mountain.

How to come 
Prague has only one international airport (Vaclav Havel Airport) with an effective local transport system and in 1 hour you can reach to extreme ends of the city.

After arrival you may change the money to Euros (like 50Eur ; the rates will be lower there) then on the right side of terminal 1 (out of schengen flights go here) and terminal 2 (schengen flights goes here) you can find information desk and public transport ticket counter. (they speak excellent English)

Tickets
you need to take 90min ticket to reach to the first stop of METRO B stop ZLICIN  to go to last stop  CERNY MOST where you can get the BUS for LIBEREC. to reach the metro line you can take bus 100.

the cost of ticket is 32czk and if the man sees your luggage the extra 16czk ticket for the big luggage also, depends on you but i often see ticket checkers don't say anything for the luggage ticket :)
Now you have the ticket go out of the airport you will find the buses just in front (hardly 100meter), so jump in the bus 100 and VALIDATE your ticket,

 you need to punch it in the yellow machine inside buses which will print your start time, Mostly people don't do because they have monthly cards, Do it because the penalty is 800czk and the Tickets checkers comes quite often in normal dresses. The last stop of bus 100 is ZLICIN and all passengers will jump out . walk 100 meter more in the direction of metro (most people will be going there just follow) ,few steps down and you will reach to the metro line B. Take the Metro on the RIGHT hand side and sit and relax for next 50 min till it reaches to last stop CERNY MOST.
BUS TO LIBEREC
At Cerny Most come out of station and go downstairs (the inter city buses are downstairs) In front you will find student agency office (buy online ticket from www.student agency.cz) buy the ticket for Liberec, it runs every hour mostly and last buses are at 21:00 and 23:00 if you are late then stay at Prague , you cant go liberec that night :)
The bus stop number 6 is just near to the selling office and YELLOW color buses are very easy to see.Now sit in the bus for next 1 hour and 5 min journey ,enjoy free coffee and tea in the bus or buy water and other drinks for cash,

The bus stop first in Liberec at the stop FUGNEROVA (that's the local bus stop) then it goes to NADRAZI which is main bus station and Railway station)

Jump out at Fugnerova and now walk little 100 meter more toward the shopping mall MYLIBEREC inside you can take ticket for the buses (20czk for adult for 40 min travel) take the bus you want ,
for coming to the university you can take bus 15 and 19 (the timetable and stop can be found here www.dpmlj.cz) for first time its better to take taxi it will cost 130-150czk maximum (4-5Eur).
To the taxi man just say KOLEJE HARCOV  (in English KOLEYE HARSOV J is spoken like Yes and C is like Sit )


Lastly: Its a quite safe country but pickpockets do exist so keep your stuff safe,

you can get more info at

• http://www.prague-guide.co.uk/articles/public-transport-tickets.html