Woke up to a beautifully crisp morning and looked out of our palace into a forest of luscious green pine trees. Not a bad way to start the day.
Headed to Lake Como under light showers, though by the time we arrived it was definitely crisp and raining on and off. We got onto a boat and did a cruise around some of the lake area. Our tour guide was fun and it was basically an entertainment tonight version of touring. We were told information about this family and that minister who bought houses, brought mistresses, family disputes, new wealthy, old riches, super stars, the famous, those who think they're famous and become more infamous for lack of reasons to be famous and of course George Clooney. He says hi by the way.
It had stopped raining by the time the cruise was over and we followed our guide around for another little while. It was a cute area, some nice stories about the development of the town the people's choices and control of the development of the cathedral- the towns people funded a proportion of the cathedral so they even had a pagean statue out the front.
Lunchtime had arrived and we were given instructions ,... Repeatedly .... And how lunch would work.... Repeatedly.... And where the toilets were.... Repeatedly. The 5 of us distanced ourselves quickly and found a nice little cheap restaurant with cute waiters.. Bonus :-). Had a nice lunch though I felt a bit dubious about my pasta and whether it had dairy in it. I guess time would tell. Letizia gave us the option of traveling to Lake Maggiore. Everyone said yes so we drove for a little while longer and watched the lovely lake side hotels (all closed) pass us by. We got off the bus and it was decidedly chilly but the views were spectacular. We were at the stage now where we were into group photos and we were going a bit snappy happy, different photo combinations and permutations, grabbing Salvatore, Letizia anyone basically who was not American lol. It was also nice to be able to take photos without the grey furry thing in every shot.... Thx to Joe who felt it necessary to capture each and every frickin moment on his tiny little frickin camera with his frickin tiny little grey microphone on a stick... You may b picking up that it was slightly annoying. And more to the point what was he doing with the footage... Don't ask what because you will get a long explanation involving words like 'money shot' and 'I'm just the man who captures the magic' ugh vomit !!!!
We hung around the area for about an hr or so and then headed back to our palace among the pine trees. We were all like crack addicts when we arrived back and grabbed half hour lots of wifi codes. We sat there for about 2 hrs drinking wine, chatting, face booking etc. Letizia came and sat with us and chatted, letting her guard down about some of the more lets say troublesome clients and relaid some hilarious stories about her travel groups in the past, one involving a black cock...lol I'm talking about a rooster....get your mind out of the gutter people. She also told stories of her 12 cats and 4 tortoises ( pronounced toy-tus)
We eventually made it to the restaurant where we were accosted by some of our travelling companions with stories of woe about the restaurant and the ' can you believe that' and ' he waited for THIS long'. Poor Letizia was bombarded with complaints and issues, the poor thing couldn't even finish her own dinner. We on the other hand were served immediately, probably because Letizia had a kind word in the waitress' ear...see it pays to be friends with the tour leader.
Ended the night with a couple of phone calls home and went to bed, until......time did tell. stomach issues galore...i was not happy for the rest of the night...oh well id had a good run until then.
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