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Travel Blogs from Varenna
Lake como
Good one nick....typed in his entry but god knows what you did with it...technology. Can't even spell blogg - see That's what happens under pressure.....now, as I was saying before jan deleted my message, yesterday we walked to some place ...lots of waterfalls between the stone houses with crystal clear water flowing into lake ...
Lake como
Train one hour out to varenna on lake como. Weather fine again, lake is clear n blue. Varenna is small village across from Bellagio. Very cute on hill side, ferry takes you across to other villages. We are staying at a hotel in the village square, bell chimes from 7am till 7pm we think, or hope, saw mellagio village on other side of lake today, it is a beautiful town, buildings ...
A visit to the Western side of Lake Como
Slept in until after 8 this morning. Cold and cloudy outside so we had a slow breakfast and some good conversation around the dining room table for the whole morning. Interesting views from the cottage - sometimes looking out above the clouds at the sunshine but seeing nothing of the lake below.
In the afternoon we greatly enjoyed a driving excursion around the northern edges of the lake ...
Birthday celebrations in the mountains
Morning was cloudy and cool - about 4°. We went to breakfast at Muellers as it was Fides' birthday today. Great spread to start the day. Rang Omi and she also spoke with Fides and Andrea. She was pleased to hear we were having a great time with family.
Later Andrea joined us when we went with Fides and Jorg on a drive to two lakeside ...
Bellissimo Bellagio
... the evening meal. Again we unintentionally avoided work needing to be done and instead enjoyed some cheeses, cold meats and Italian beer while talking with Fides and Jorg. We were also fortunate enough to be given a tour of their house which has also been professionally renovated such that it could easily be a permanent residence rather than a holiday home. Everyone came together at the Schenk's for a wonderful meal of spaghetti and green salad. 'Some' bottles ...