Our first leg going home. After a leisurely breakfast in our hotel we start our journey with the last ferry ride over to Varenna. It was a sunny clear morning and we had lots of time before our 12:30 train to Milan. We sat in the cafe by the ferry dock with a last cappuccino and cookies. It is the Saturday of an Italian national holiday long weekend. It was very busy with people going over to Bellagio. No gypsies at the station, just a rather weird man that kept showing everyone his blue eyes behind his sunglasses telling us he was German. Not sure why that was important. It didn't impress me and we kept away from him.
Uneventful train ride, lots of tunnels and no more lake. Within an hour we are in Milan....find a taxi and head for our "air hotel". Didn't look like much at first but turned out to be very nice. We were hungry and it was still a few hours til the 7:00 dinner hour. The waiter said we could sit in a corner of the dining room by the windows looking over the gardens of roses and hydrangeas and he would bring us an 'antipasto snack'. Cold meats, cheese, crusty bread and a bottle of white wine. A pleasant way to spend the late afternoon.
The hallway to our room. Funny anecdote. This hotel is more normal than those in Bellagio in that they use regular plastic cards to unlock your door. What we didn't know was how to keep the lights on. We went around trying to turn on lights which you needed in the bathroom and nothing worked. Turns out after calling the desk that there is a slot inside your room door and you have to insert your card and leave it there while you are in your room and the lights all work. When you leave you take your card with you and all the lights go out. Very efficient I thought. When you know!!
Nice dinner of spinach and cheese stuffed chicken breast with roasted vegetables. A whiskey and cream nightcap with a delicious dessert. I'm relaxed and ready for bed. Still doing journalling and gluing ephemera.
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