Woke up around 07:00, breakfast was a bit disappointing, no hot food. The weather was a big change from yesterday – cold and cloudy. The plan today was to get the daily ferry ticket that allowed hop on hop off so we could explore the other towns. Hopefully the weather would mean fewer people around.
The hotel had a sign up about a cycle tour of 65km but we decided against that.
I’d told the owner at breakfast we wanted to get the shuttle bus into the town, but when it turned up 4 others got in and there were no seats left for us, so we had to wait for him to go and come back. Don’t know why I bothered booking.
The weather was pretty rotten – very grey and cold. At least it had the effect of keeping people away because in sharp contrast to the previous day there was hardly anyone around. No one waiting to buy a ticket and about 10 waiting to get on the ferry, compared to about 200 the day before. The ferry took us across to Varenna then was going back to Bellagio so we got off and then on to another going where we wanted. Got off that one at Menaggio and walked around the town, stopping for a coffee and taking more photos, although the weather made everything look grey.
Got back on a boat, it called in at several of the towns dotted along the lake, and decided to stay on and go back to Bellagio, which would have been a good idea if the boat went back there, but it didn’t – it was going down the lake all the way to Como.
We had to get off at another stop and get the fast boat back, but didn’t have long between ours stopping and the fast one arriving. If we missed it we’d have a 2 hour wait for the next one. Luckily we got the fast one and had a 10 minute wait at the next stop.
Back to Bellagio, had lunner (like brunch, only lunch / dinner, our own invention).
Found a restaurant away from the lake front hoping it wouldn’t be over priced, but all of Bellagio is a tourist trap.
In a bit of a role reversal I ordered swordfish and Song ordered a pizza.
Mine was a small portion and not very nice, very fishy. Luckily Song couldn’t eat all her pizza so I had some. I also had a beer, just for a change.
Cost $59. My small piece of fishy fish cost $25 and they will incur my wrath in the form of a bad Tripadvisor review.
The next shuttle bus was an hour away and we’d seen all of Bellagio so decided to get a taxi back to the hotel.
A bit disappointed with the weather, but nothing we could do about it, and at least it didn’t rain.
Tomorrow we start our way back home – one night in Milan, then fly to Dubai and stay overnight, then home.
