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Gday Cathy here.
We realised we had missed a city in our blog and as that was unforgiveable to our brave readers I have decided to take a step back to sunny lake Como. As many of you will know Lake Como is the religious home to all George Clooney admirerers. Krista and I have toyed with this religion so it gave us great joy to be heading to the homeland.
We were on our last night of the bus tour with george michael and lake como was the destination. We had gone to Verona during the day to see the fictional birthplace of romeo and juliet. Then we slipped in to Como in the late afternoon. Como is gorgeous - about 2kms from the Swiss border and there is something very Heidi about it. On arrival in Como we had a nice hour long boat cruise to truely appreciate the villas and the mountains. The mountains go straight down into the lake so most of the homes hang off the side of cliffs and beaches as such are unheard of. Then we had some free time in Como of which we did our usual science and cultural experiment and tested some of the local gelati - very fine I might add.
We were informed by George Michael that George Clooney lives in another village up on the lake and was no where near where we were. After my offering a taxi driver to take me there he said in perfect english - grow up and go home to your husband. (not really!). So with George out of reach we had to find something else to amuse us. Krista did speak of the fenicular so you do know what we did that night. We headed out after dinner that night - around my usual bedtime and got a taxi into como and went up the fenicular. The normal price is €4.75 but the guy only charged us €2 so we were a bit scared he would leave us up there. Got back to the hotel by 11.30 so I could get some beauty sleep.
Hotel in Como was nice. Amadeus hotel in Venice was not so great so it was a good change.
talk soon
cath
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Di and Dad The hills are alive in Como.......Unfortunate you were just short of George's place! There's always hope you'll some celebrity on your travel. Di