Well cannot believe it is 12 months since my last post!! Where did it go?.
Anyway will attempt to finish this trip with a readers digest version of events and places.
After Vienna we travelled to lake Como to a smallish town about 1hr by bus from Como called Mennagio, fabulous!!
Lake Como was very relaxing, breakfast in the apartment, morning coffee and croisants in the piazza, then hop a ferry or bus to somewhere, back for prosecco at 5 and passagate and then dinner, phew!
Mennagio is a great little place (well not so little really) went to a cooking class across the lake to Varrena, it was a perfect day for being inside and cooking and drinking (it was cold and rainy).
Another day caught the bus to Lugano (1hr) for lunch.
After Lake Como travelled by train to Cinque Terra and walked to Vannezza for the night. You need to be a mountain goat with iron man strength to get thru some of those sections, luckily there is also a train between the towns.
Of course we visited Milan and Genoa and spent some time in a little town called Agnana in Calabria, again by train. Gerace is a medievel hilltop town nearby with a cafe that sells fabulous Dolce and coffee.
Anyway will attempt to finish this trip with a readers digest version of events and places.
After Vienna we travelled to lake Como to a smallish town about 1hr by bus from Como called Mennagio, fabulous!!
Lake Como was very relaxing, breakfast in the apartment, morning coffee and croisants in the piazza, then hop a ferry or bus to somewhere, back for prosecco at 5 and passagate and then dinner, phew!
Mennagio is a great little place (well not so little really) went to a cooking class across the lake to Varrena, it was a perfect day for being inside and cooking and drinking (it was cold and rainy).
Another day caught the bus to Lugano (1hr) for lunch.
After Lake Como travelled by train to Cinque Terra and walked to Vannezza for the night. You need to be a mountain goat with iron man strength to get thru some of those sections, luckily there is also a train between the towns.
Of course we visited Milan and Genoa and spent some time in a little town called Agnana in Calabria, again by train. Gerace is a medievel hilltop town nearby with a cafe that sells fabulous Dolce and coffee.
Thats about it I think, we headed home via a few days in Rome, then thru Dubai again, availing ourselves of the facilities of the then very new Emirates terminal - very impressive. And so Home!! Three great months, and looking forward to
the next trip.