Category: Italy

Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, Thursday, September 6, 2012 We get up fairly early as we have a 0910 train to catch. It is hard to believe but there is no rain and not a cloud in sight when we look outside. We eat our breakfast and walk two blocks to catch the tram to the train […]

Milan, Lombardy, Italy Wednesday, September 5, 2012 It was raining lightly when we woke up but we are hopeful it will clear a little. Breakfast is the same as yesterday except there are scrambled eggs which we take advantage of. They are only luke warm but it is nice to have something different from the […]

Milan, Lombardy, Italy Monday, September 3, 2012 We get up and pack, then head down for breakfast right at 0800 when they open. The girl who serves seems a little upset as she is not ready. I think she is more upset at herself than at us. At first we thought maybe the hours were […]

Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy Sunday, September 2, 2012 It was a Grand Day. We saw the Grand Hotel Bellagio, Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Grand Hotel Caddanabia, Grand Hotel Mennagio, and the Grand Hotel Serbelloni. This was joined by my Grand Wife, Carol and her Grand Husband Charlie. Life was also Grand and the weather was Grand too. […]

Pescallo, Lombardy, Italy Saturday, September 1, 2012 It is raining when we get up. We hurry down to breakfast as we have to catch a train so time to eat is limited. Walking in a pretty heavy rain is never fun. We didn’t put on our rain pants so by the time we get to […]

Stresa, Piedmont, Italy Friday, August 31, 2012 De-stressing in Stresa. There really hasn’t been anything to de- stress from. We are pretty tired from travel day and all the excitement we had in Switzerland. So, not much on the agenda today. We had a very nice breakfast at the restaurant next to the hotel. It […]

Stresa, Piedmont, Italy Thursday, August 30, 2012 Today is basically just a travel day to get situated in Italy. We left Montreux at 0838 and the express trained whisked us to the town of Iselle di Trasqueria on the Italian border. We were supposed to go to Domodossola originally and then change trains there to […]

Milan, Lombardy, Italy Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Milan, fashion capital of Italy, and we must be making a statement in our conevertible hiking pants and gore tex rain gear. When you see this as all the fashion rage next year, you will know where it started! Breakfast here was not bad, we had hard boiled […]