Our balcony!!
Menaggio square
Lunch in Bellano
Bellagio on Lake Como
Ahhh we love this area of Italy!!! The rain has left and we woke to another gorgeous day. We sent some things back home to lessen out load, got our train tickets for tomorrow and had laundry done today - the essentials!! We made a spur of the moment decision to rent a car and drive around the entire lake. We had to take the ferry over to Bellagio to rent the car. Maneuvering the streets of Bellagio to get out of town was the first difficult task. The streets are so narrow and there are people everywhere!! Luckily the car was pretty little too - a bright red Dihaitsu. The second task was driving on the windy roads around this area of the lake but Dan did a great job, although he did have to stop and have a beer at lunch to calm his nerves. It wasn't as crazy as the Rome drivers but they were going a lot faster. We drove up to the north end of the lake where the big sport is sailboarding and kite boarding. These guys were amazing, doing jumps with their kites and twists and turns. We took some movies but I will post pictures too. We stopped in Menaggio and had cappuccinos and tiramitsu (best ever). Menaggio is directly across from Varenna. We had to drive to the next town Candabbria to get the ferry back to Bellagio to turn the car in. It was a very relaxing drive for me - Dan can not say the same but it was good experience for when we rent the car for the week in France.
Got back to Varenna about 8pm and yeahh our laundry was delivered and all done for us at a hefty cost though. There is no self serve laundry in Varenna so not much choice.
We had dinner at Osteria de Varenna near our room - we both split an appetizer of Lake Herring - full of little edible bones and extremely salty. 1st thing I have had that I didn't care for. But, I did manage to eat the head, which Dan did not!!
Time to pack and get ready for our trip to Paris for the French Open.
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