Monday, July 30, 2007

Tuesday July 24 - Lake Como area, Italy

After eating breakfast on the balcony overlooking charming Lake Como, we were off. Today, our itinerary was to explore the towns of Bellagio and Varena, both along the shores of Lake Como. We parked our car not far from the hotel and took a ferry across the lake to Bellagio. Bellagio turned out to be a smaller town than I expected, but quite interesting with many small shops and restaurants. What amazed me the most, was the number of tourists in the town that were speaking English. After browsing many of the shops in Bellagio for awhile, we took a boat up the lake a bit to the very small, quiet town of Varenna. We walked the streets and small alleys of Varenna for awhile and then hopped the ferry back to Bellagio for some dinner, coppucino and gellati. We caught the 9:20 PM ferry across the lake and back to our car. After a very hot and tiring day, we were happy to arrive back at our air conditioned hotel by 10 PM. We were off to bed for another long journey tomorrow.......to the city of Verona.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello Bob and Gail

It is nice to share your adventures on your trip! I can imagine that in Italy it has been very hot. I am looking forward to your report about Verona and maybe the Opera.

Enjoy the rest of your time in Europe.

Greetings
Eliane