Another busy day. In the morning we had a trip to Como market, a huge market selling all sorts of things.
We walked through it and then went back to the Cathedral as we had missed the frog on the “frog door”. It takes a long time to find it . There is a frog carved into the door surrounds and he is eating a buttercup. It is said to be lucky if you rub his stomach. It is small and difficult to find but we did! We missed it on the previous visit to the Cathedral.
Back to the hotel for lunch . There was still a lot of low cloud around.
After lunch we went on a river cruise and saw some of the beautiful houses lakeside.
We had an Italian guide around the lake and no matter where you sat on the boat, you couldn’t understand a word and yes she was speaking in English! At the end of the tour we stopped off in Bellagio. It is the opposite side of the lake from where we are staying and just a very short ferry ride. So, we wandered up and down the steps, a very pretty place and also went into the church.
In the evening Hayley and Graham (a lovely couple from the sister hotel) came to join us for dinner. Linda asked at reception in the morning if we could reserve a table for 7 and they told us they won’t reserve tables! OK, so we decided to meet in the bar and be one of the first people in the restaurant as soon as it opened. We found a table and the waiter told us it was reserved, OK, so we will push some tables together….no we are not allowed to do it. So, we than said in which case we would go and sit on the first table as we had been told tables can’t be reserved, so please take the German reserved notice off it as we were going to sit there. Eventually they said OK the manager will let you. This was after us having a row with them, saying either tables be reserved OR NOT!! The Germans who obviously had reserved the table gave us daggers and complained to the staff…. we were not going to move! 1-0 to the Brits! I’m very surprised we didn’t find any towels on the seats.
At the sister hotel they only have half board so we all offered to get Hayley and Graham drinks…..Hayley had quite a few!
Thought for the Day – “Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.”
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