"This is unusual weather for June."
We've been hearing that a lot lately. Italian most recently, but French, too. "It's not supposed to be like this in June". Well, it is. We'll have to live with it. We awoke today to what sounded like a freight train passing. Turned out it was the wind. It's been raining all day long. There's snow on the tops of the peaks surrounding Lake Como.
We resigned ourselves to the fact very early in the day that we wouldn't be riding our bikes. That's okay. We drove out to the Cycling Museum at the top of the Madonna del Ghisallo climb. It's interesting, though entirely in Italian.
We drove out to Lecco to have a look around. We forgot how many businesses close on Sunday's. We poked around a little bit then drove back to Bellagio to do our little bit of laundry.
By the way, we rode yesterday. About 65 miles. Started in nice hazy sunshine, nice temps. By the time we reached Como we could see trouble ahead. Rain.
We had to head to Menaggio to catch the ferry to Bellaggio, we had no choice. But that's where the rain was. It was a thunderstorm at first, so we sat in a tunnel for an hour thinking it would blow by. After an hour it was readily apparent it wasn't going anywhere. So we hoofed it to Mennagio. In the rain. Again.
It wasn't as bad as last week, but wet's wet.
Oh, but on the plus side, I got my strength back. I felt good on the bike again. Yay!
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