I still have some back-up reporting to do, I'll get to that later. For now, we've arrived in Bellagio, Italy. The view to the left is the view from our room at Il Perlo Panorama. It doesn't do the view justice. It's truly superb.
To the far left is the view from our dinner table this evening. It was strange, we were the only people in the entire restaurant. The owner's said it's been this way for about 10 days.
We pretty much got rained out of the Alps. . . today dawned beautiful, of course we had to head out. Today in on Lake Como was warm and beautiful. We're being told it is supposed to rain Saturday and Sunday. What's up with that?!
Carlo and his mother, Piera, are the proprietors. Here's a link to the hotel website:
http://www.ilperlo.com/
Carlo and Piera are such friendly people. In fact, the Italians in general are vastly more pleasant to deal with than the French were (and moreso that what's found at home). Yesterday on the top of the Madonna del Ghisallo climb we asked a gentleman to take our photo. Not only did he take our photo, he introduced himself to us, asked our names, introduced us to his son that had just ridden up on his bike. He told us where he was from, what he did for a living, took a photo of us with him on his cell phone, took my e-mail address. Truly very friendly. Same thing when we were lost in Como. I approached a fellow, a cyclist, and asked directions. Although we couldn't communicate all that well he was all smiles, asking others for questions to assist, etc. It's cool.
I wonder if that guy was the same one tailgating me this morning?
Back to Il Perlo, I don't know much about the star ratings, Il Perlo's a 2-star (for what that's worth), but the place is clean comfortable, affordable, great views and superb people. Carlo said 70% of the internet traffic on their website is from California. Thought that was interesting. It's everything we need.
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