Treff Beau Rivage Locarno
Viale Verbano 31 Locarno, Lake Maggiore, Ticino, Swiss Alps, 6602, Switzerland
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The lake, the opera and the church
... by the Heinz family. They were all huge and mostly very pretty. A couple were a bit dodgy, but I suppose we all know money doesn't necessarily buy good taste. We then had a lovely hot chocolate in a little cafe by the waterfront. Then we were into the bus and off to Milan.
The trip is only about 50ks so it only took about 45 minutes. We were in Milan just after 11.30. Our guide was Marika and she took ...
A quick trip to Switzerland
... must be a soccer match on and they were all watching it on TV.
Lugano is a lovely little town on the side of a huge lake. It was a nice place to spend a couple of hours. We walked along the lake side, then got a hot chocolate. It was another wonderful thick 'ciocolatta'.
Back at our hotel we had dinner. It was pasta for entree, chicken schnitzel with potatoes and beans for main course and a lovely little cake for dessert. Tea and coffee ...
'Just a touch a touch of paradise...'
... a painting. Pulling the curtains back in the morning with the mist starting to lift off the lake, a loan ferry motoring across the water and the mountains looming in the background was simply captivating. It's hard to describe Bellagio without sounding contrived but it really was just a little slice of Italian heaven. Easy to see why the likes of George Clooney chose Lake Como to set up a home away ...
Beautiful...Brilliant...Bellagio
... see the first two towns (Riomaggiore and Manarola) and had a great time. I caught up with them as I took off for my afternoon walk around the wall and they were just coming from the train station…they both looked very happy.
I made a pretty special ‘Osso Buco’ that night and we all enjoyed our second last night together.
The weather has been just fantastic all this week…. No rain to speak of (except for a night) and the sun has ...
Lake Como
... Every now and then there is a little town of brightly coloured houses, a beautiful church or an extravagant villa. I met this cute old ouple from australia on the first ferry and bumped in to them on my last ferry.
Highlights would have to have been Villa Olmo at Como which was a stunning cream coloured villa with ridiculously over the top interiors (gold everything!) and villa Carlotta at Tremezzio. the villa was a popular stopping place in the 18th ...


