Varese: convertible car rides and Italian lakes

Well. Had a VERY relaxed and amazing sleep in David's gorgeous colourful apartment last night! We didn't even set an alarm today we simply woke up when we were ready. Unfortunately the SEVRAL churches in Davies neighbourhood had other ideas. I was woken at 6 first then again at 8 so I just got up. It was a lovely view from the front balcony and you and from the back veranda you could see the hills of Switzerland.

Once everyone else had risen we had a coffee on the balcony and headed off in David's convertible car towards two lakes in the area, Lake Lago d'orta and Lake Maggiore. We first headed to Lago d'orta, perched at the bottom of a deep valley we waked down a very steep hill from the car park th the village and the lake. The village was quite typical of a lake village in Italy; steep pebbled streets, colourful houses that are slightly falling apart, altogether a very beautiful and idyllic setting to have lunch.

(Photos to follow)

We took a different route back to Varese via the biggest lake in the area, Lake Maggiore, where we took a short ferry journey over to the other side. We had ice lollies and acted like wee kiddies :D it was fun.

In the evening we had David's good friend Ali join us for dinner. As I had volunteered to prepare a meal we stopped by a grocery store to pick up some supplies. This has to be one of the best grocery stores I've ever been in! Hahahaha all my favourite foods were super cheap and fresh and I just wanted to buy everything and ship it home! Anyway I decided to make a big salad so we had fresh olives and tomatoes with bresaola and buffalo mozzarella 😍

We had a feast, ate and drank wine till there wasn't any left. We laughed a lot and told a lot of stories and altogether had a fabulous time and felt completely at ease in the company of these three ace people!

Finishing off the night with a wee dram of Scottish whisky and of Italian Grappa David, Heather, Claire and I sat up for another couple of hours exchanging more stories until sleep started catching up on us.

Thanks again for a wonderful time David and Heather :)

Xx F

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