Lake Como

Adeline started the day with a run through a park located a few blocks from our hotel. At 8am hardly a soul on the streets, not only because it's Italy but it's also Saturday. After that we started getting ready for the trek out to Lake Como, a day trip away from downtown Milan where we're staying. It was a bit of a schlep to get there, but the beautiful scenery and fun of experiencing Lake Como by boat was well worth it. It's a kind of Swiss-German-French-Italian ambience; romantic beyong belief, opulent, simply the ideal setting for a fifties, black and white Hollywood girl-fall-for-rich-Italian-stud movie (was that ever made and who starred?). Stopped off at a small lakeside village whose name sounds like Tremazini, where we ogled the five star lakeside hotels - one with floating pool INSIDE the lake - before taking a quick walk around the most amazing, exquisite villa with a botanic garden to die for. Again, see note about Hollywood Italian stud movie.

We're kind of sad to be leaving Milan tomorrow. Another two days would have been ideal, just to get more of the city's cultural offerings, and maybe go see the Last Supper. It's not the most to-die-for Italian city we've ever been to, but it's, well, Italian. And the search for the perfect Milan pizza has to continue on the next journey, since we've not really come across anything that's really pizza-pizza-pizza. Not for lack of trying though...

A 6am flight to Alghero in Sardinia takes us out of Milan tomorrow, so it's an early night tonight. Looks like no Internet over in Sardinia, so don't worry if the blog lies fallow for a few days, we haven't eloped everyone, that may only happen later on in the trip....

Useless stats and facts:

** Ordered the strongest hot chocolate I've ever had in Como.
** Photo count standing on 350.
** The hand sculpture is at the entrance to Como station.
** Avoid Milan Central station, they're renovating.
** Italian trains are super comfy.
** En ja Karen ons het baie aan julle gedink by Como.