Lake Como - 27-Sept

Sue and I go down to breakfast for 08:30 as agreed with Carol the previous evening. Even after taking our time we are still finished and they haven't shown up so we go back to our room and ring them. They are still in bed having not had an alarm call that they'd booked the evening before. So they skip breakfast, we pay for the next day's excursion to St Moritz, collect our packed lunches and we get to the ticket office just up the road from the hotel as the ferry comes in, so we are still on the schedule agreed the night before.

Bellagio is lovely so we take a wander, wander some more, eat our pack on park benches next to the town's church before wandering some more. The alleyways are steep, narrow and cobbled. The town is very photogenic and just about everybody is friendly with the time to chat. We wend our way back to the ferry stop and get a boat to Varenna. This is like Menaggio yesterday and Bellagio earlier so we wander some more. The cameras are busy clucking away and we are constantly chatting, often with other tourists and locals (it helps that Giuseppe is Italian and that Carol is Italian fluent). 

We have a round of drinks at a cafe bar around 13:30 and the explore further up the alleys away from the immediate lakeside, and it is fabulous. Again we almost naturally end up at the ferry stop and bask in the sunshine but a breeze is starting to get up and the temperature is dropping (it is September after all) and we are in t-shirts and summer clothing with no jackets or warmer clothing. We decide to catch the ferry back via Belagio to the hotel. It has warmed up again and so we get some drinks and head up to the sun terrace on the roof where it is sheltered from the breeze, a really nice place to be.  

After dinner we are back onto the ferry to Bellagio seeking some night life local action.  We walk all around and the only activity is leaving the church and in the few bars on the lakeside near to the jetties where the ferries pull up.  They are so quiet, but we have a couple of drinks and then head back to the ferry and our hotel.