Lago di Como, the Day After My Birthday (9/24/05)

Trip to Lago di Como, more specifically, the towns of Varenna and Bellagio. We arrived in Varenna by train early in the morning and then caught a ferry over to Bellagio, which is a beautiful city on the penisola that juts into the center of the lake, and coincidentally is the town that the hotel in Las Vegas is named after. What a long day. We ate lunch in Bellagio, then walked around the city, got tired, ate some gelato on a park bench and talked with some old couples from the US on tour through Italy. Then we drank some coffee, tried to ride bikes through the hills surrounding the lake, which on only 4 hours of sleep was not a good idea. Finally, we left earlier than we had intended, had some ticket issues with an automatic ticket machine, transfered in Milan and ate a late dinner in Pavia. Lots of pics, so it was difficult to decide which ones to put up on the website. Enjoy, the day after my birthday.