We spent today on a booked tour to Lake Como. We only
had a couple of hours sleep as we were on viber with everyone in
Melbourne in the very early hours. We got up at 7am and had a lovely breakfast at the hotel. Cereal, hot food, fresh fruit and sweets
(donuts, cakes) not that we had any.
We had a bus tour to Lake Como, which is about 75 minutes
from Milan.
Como is a very picturesque destination. It is on a huge lake
with the Swiss Alps in the distance and steep hills all around. We had a thing to listen to the tour guide’s comments but it
didn’t work most of the time so missed the commentry which was a bit of a shame .
Michael was chuffed -
Como, like everywhere else in Italy has
a lot of history, all the way back to the Romans....of course.
We were given lots of spare time and we utilised it looking
at all the fashion shops.
Colene again loved the fashion and Michael was also impressed on how well the Italians dress just to go
done to the local piazza (shopping area). Today being Saturday there were lots
of families out and about and Como was full of people. A trip on the cable car to
the top of the hillside gave us breathtaking views of the Swiss Alps and the Como township. We met
a number of Aussies who were also traveling through Italy and we shared
stories.
Of course, we couldn’t let a day go buy and not buy clothes,
and Colene found some bella vestti (beautiful clothes). Once again we saved a
fortune.
We had a boat ride on the lake but as we were both tired we fell asleep in the beautiful
afternoon sun. The trip back to Milan was very quick as we both slept most of
the way.
Once we were off Colene wanted to see the Meeca of Milan
fashion.... Via Monte Napoleone. Everyone we asked was very helpful in finding
this street of fashion. However while Colene visited the house of Versace, Chanel etc Michael was very keen to take photos of the Maserati, Bentley,
Ferrari and other common cars, that just happened to be parked along the Via (
Italian for Street).
We then took a taxi back to the hotel. It is amazing how
excited people are when you tell them you’re
from Australia. We met some of the people from the tour at the hotel and
also a couple of others from Estonia.
We decided to have an early night as we are traveling to
Venice tomorrow morning.
Ciao
Como's cathedral
Just your average view over Como...
Colene's type of window shopping.
