gary loves boats

Our second day in Italy breakfast consisted of fresh fruit, raisin bread, orange cake and sparkling water. We took a boat from Travernola to Como, and then took an hour boat ride to Bellagio.

Bellagio was beautiful. We walked up and down alleys in this charming seaside town and enjoyed some shopping, a walk in a park, lunch and gelato. My favorite gelato was limoncello, which is creamy vanilla with lemon. That day we met people from all over the world, including a friendly shopkeeper from England who gave us a helpful local map, a sweet family from Texas with three kids like us, and a motley, outgoing crew of men from Australia and America, clad in matching blue shirts, who were driving their race cars all over Europe. From afar I thought maybe they were a soccer team.

After a day of soaking in the sights of Bellagio, we reversed the trip to return to our hotel. Every second on every boat Gary was happy as a clam. I can feel queasy on boats sometimes, but the water was not rough so I was happy too!

Upon our return we made another picnic dinner and enjoyed a peaceful evening on our veranda, watching, guess, what...the boats go by.

Ahh Italy!