Como - I like this place! Blue! Crystal blue were the skies this morning when we opened the shades!!! Some strong wind must have blown through during the night to chase away the rain! Gloria! Gloria! How invigorating! Today is the day for our fast boat ride through the lake to the boat's end destination, Bellagio (once again). Lake Como is a very big; it takes one hour to reach Bellagio by water - maybe only 45 minutes non-stop but our fast boat made ...

We are hardcore. We must be. Today was a national holiday in Europe and ordinarily that means hordes of people out in streets, plazas, restaurant, bars, amusements, cars, buses, boats and trains. But the weatherman was correct in his 100% rain forecast today. It was raining when we woke up this morning and it just stopped about 2 hours ago around 6 pm. We made breakfast of eggs, bacon wrapped sausages and some of our extra special cheese from Zurich. Heavy...