Sunday – Day 1 Bellagio

Despite rain over night, the day dawned beautiful – clear and still. We decided that on the first day that we would do a walking tour around Bellagio. We had picked up a brochure the day before from the tourist information centre that described a walking tour around the town. Leaving from our apartment (over the road from the information centre and ferry terminal – we really couldn’t be more central), we walked to the point, back up through the town, out along the ridge road to have beautiful views of a small boat harbour at the top of Lake Lecco, down to the boat harbour, then back up to the ridge road, along to an old villa that looks in need of renovation, before walking right across the peninsular to get views over Lake Como and walking down the main road to get to San Giovani – a suburb of Bellagio.

Now we discovered why the locals had been so ‘fearless’ the day before. The walking tour makes you walk down roads that have no footpaths and 8 foot high rock walls on either side, so the pedestrians are left to fend for themselves among the crazy locals and two way traffic. The walk back into town gave good views of the town itself, so we got to take some really good photos on the walking tour.

Those two paragraphs took over 4 hours of walking, so by then we were ready for lunch. During our walk, we had seem the perfect place for lunch, which was called La Pergola which was over by the little boat harbour at the top of Lake Lecco, so we hiked over there for a well deserved meal and a bottle of wine.

After lunch and a siesta, we spent the evening sitting on our balcony with a couple of bottles of wine and a pizza watching the world go by – wonderful.