Cousin Orville
Inventor of Air Cooling
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2000
Pre-night 1 Lake Como
Bonjourno! It’s time for La Dolce Vita! Let’s jump aboard our L’avventura to Italy (and Switzerland)! DW Kate and I are back again for the Northern Italy/Switzerland ABD with a stop in Lake Como before and Milan after the Adventure.
Our flight was uneventful from Houston to Newark to Milan. It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a trip with no airline changes or issues. It was a pleasant surprise. Well oddly enough Kate’s seat was changed going to Newark, I won’t count that. When we got on board we and two other couples played musical chairs.
We arrived into Milan in the morning and had arranged our own car to drive us to Lake Como. The only downside to doing Lake Como prior to the ABD is having to get to Lake Como and then later over to Stresa on Lake Maggiore where the ABD starts. For us it was well worth it though. The drive to Tremezzo where our hotel was took about an hour and 15min.
Tremezzo is half way up the lake across the water from Bellagio. If you imagine Lake Como like an upside down letter Y, Tremezzo and Bellagio are right in the middle of the lake where it forks. We’re staying at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. It was gorgeous - like a 1930’s Hollywood retreat. But it wasn’t stuffy. It had that Italian relaxed charm and there were a number of families with young children around. It was charming. We checked in and our room was available. We had a beautiful room facing the lake. After we settled in we headed to their pizza pool side restaurant and had a great Parma Pizza with prosciutto.
We arranged a boat tour of the lake after lunch through the concierge. The hotel has a boat, but it was booked at the time so they coordinated another boat to take us around for an hour. The boats are the 1930’s wooden speed boat style, similar to the water taxi’s in Venice. It was wonderful to cruise around the lake - and very relaxing.
Afterwards it was nap time. Jet lag was too much to get us through the whole day. We slept for a couple of hours and woke up an hour and half before dinner. Enough time for a dip in the pool. They have a number of pools to choose from - their pool behind the hotel in their gardens (next to the pizza oven), the spa infinity pool, a lap pool and their main attraction their pool on Lake Como, the WOW pool (that’s Water On Water). We headed to that pool to enjoy the scenery on the lake. It was cool but odd - it’s just floating their in the lake, so when you’re walking around the pool you can feel it move up and down slightly.
Lake Como is gorgeous needless to say. Italy has some picturesque places like Cinque Terre, the Amalfi Coast… All stunning, but this may be the prettiest for me.
After our lazy bit by the pool we got dressed for dinner. It was Kate’s birthday toady so we booked a table at the hotels restaurant La Terrazza. It was candle lit and perched up high overlooking Lago di Como. It was a fine dining restaurant but you could come dressed how ever you want. Some were very casual, some guys wore sports coats. Everyone fit in fine. I brought my suit on the trip for another activity later on, so I wore my jacket, but it wasn’t necessary. The food and service were great. We split the foies gras, Kate had a truffle and leek soup which smelled awesome. I had an eggplant ravioli. For our mains Kate had Turbot fish, and I had veal. We had a great local red wine, and for dessert - Soufflé - ricotta and peach. It was all tasty.
All in all a great day on the lake. Thanks for joining us!
Bonjourno! It’s time for La Dolce Vita! Let’s jump aboard our L’avventura to Italy (and Switzerland)! DW Kate and I are back again for the Northern Italy/Switzerland ABD with a stop in Lake Como before and Milan after the Adventure.
Our flight was uneventful from Houston to Newark to Milan. It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a trip with no airline changes or issues. It was a pleasant surprise. Well oddly enough Kate’s seat was changed going to Newark, I won’t count that. When we got on board we and two other couples played musical chairs.
We arrived into Milan in the morning and had arranged our own car to drive us to Lake Como. The only downside to doing Lake Como prior to the ABD is having to get to Lake Como and then later over to Stresa on Lake Maggiore where the ABD starts. For us it was well worth it though. The drive to Tremezzo where our hotel was took about an hour and 15min.
Tremezzo is half way up the lake across the water from Bellagio. If you imagine Lake Como like an upside down letter Y, Tremezzo and Bellagio are right in the middle of the lake where it forks. We’re staying at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. It was gorgeous - like a 1930’s Hollywood retreat. But it wasn’t stuffy. It had that Italian relaxed charm and there were a number of families with young children around. It was charming. We checked in and our room was available. We had a beautiful room facing the lake. After we settled in we headed to their pizza pool side restaurant and had a great Parma Pizza with prosciutto.
We arranged a boat tour of the lake after lunch through the concierge. The hotel has a boat, but it was booked at the time so they coordinated another boat to take us around for an hour. The boats are the 1930’s wooden speed boat style, similar to the water taxi’s in Venice. It was wonderful to cruise around the lake - and very relaxing.
Afterwards it was nap time. Jet lag was too much to get us through the whole day. We slept for a couple of hours and woke up an hour and half before dinner. Enough time for a dip in the pool. They have a number of pools to choose from - their pool behind the hotel in their gardens (next to the pizza oven), the spa infinity pool, a lap pool and their main attraction their pool on Lake Como, the WOW pool (that’s Water On Water). We headed to that pool to enjoy the scenery on the lake. It was cool but odd - it’s just floating their in the lake, so when you’re walking around the pool you can feel it move up and down slightly.
Lake Como is gorgeous needless to say. Italy has some picturesque places like Cinque Terre, the Amalfi Coast… All stunning, but this may be the prettiest for me.
After our lazy bit by the pool we got dressed for dinner. It was Kate’s birthday toady so we booked a table at the hotels restaurant La Terrazza. It was candle lit and perched up high overlooking Lago di Como. It was a fine dining restaurant but you could come dressed how ever you want. Some were very casual, some guys wore sports coats. Everyone fit in fine. I brought my suit on the trip for another activity later on, so I wore my jacket, but it wasn’t necessary. The food and service were great. We split the foies gras, Kate had a truffle and leek soup which smelled awesome. I had an eggplant ravioli. For our mains Kate had Turbot fish, and I had veal. We had a great local red wine, and for dessert - Soufflé - ricotta and peach. It was all tasty.
All in all a great day on the lake. Thanks for joining us!