Beautiful Socks, Beautiful People...

Saturday 4, October: Sadly it's Saturday and no Starchini & Hutchollo and no time for a visit with our PI friends. We are off to catch the vaporetto for the train station. After getting off the vaporetto, but before going into the train station, we decided to walk over the final bridge that crosses the Grand Canal (with all of our luggage!!), so now we've crossed them all...four for four!! On the train when all of the little old Italian ladies reached into their purses and began pulling out lunch for all the little old Italian men...we reached into our bag and pulled out our luch too. One sweet old guy toasted us with his bread and hard boiled egg. We arrived in Varenna on Lago Di Como.....

enough said.

Sunday 5, October: Jim has done his research and Varenna only has five stores, and one of them is a hair salon...thank goodness because these socks have shopped 'till they dropped in Venice and are looking forward to just kicking back. We had a tasty breakfast with a view of the lake. Grabbed my sweater and headed down the stairs. One of the four actual stores is at the bottom of the stairs....and I now own a new purple pashmina sciarpa! So much for not shopping (...it's really cold here I needed a scarf!!). Still looking for the PI...feeling a little lonely for some postal company! Headed for Bellagio tomorrow....lots of shops and looking for George (Clooney that is).

Monday 6, October: Another great breakfast (although Jim didn't have his morning pesca...have to find a pesca store in Bellagio!). Jumped on the autotraghetto (a people/car ferry) to Bellagio. Jim has been really studying the schedule and he was perfectly correct on the departure time (who had any doubts??).

Bellagio: Beautiful people, beautiful shops, beautiful pesce! I now own sciarpe in every color, for every climate. Walked down to the Punta, where you can see down both legs of the lake, and on a clear day (like today) north to the Alps...beautiful too!


Ate dinner at Jim's trattoria (Trattoria S. Giacomo), couldn't wait an hour for an indoor table (needed to catch the last ferry home) so we took the only free table, outdoors...sciarpa and trattoria provided blanket mandatory. To complete the beautiful day look at the beautiful person we spotted on a side street of Bellagio...not too happy about having his picture taken....