Not really - that's what i should have done.
One of my best friends came to visit just before the easter holidays, i was so excited to have her here and to show her this part of my life, but it's just so hard to spread the sightseeing out over the duration of three days as you could literally do it in a day! We looked at getting train tickets to Como the next day and we only paid 10euros for a return and the journey was only 40 minutes each way.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect of Lake Como, of course there was going to a lake, but i had done no such research on the town itself. The surprise was wonderful. As soon as you step off the train you can see that the town i surrounded and enclosed by the trees and green woodland with vertical climbs to the next town.
After we had walked around the lake as far as our little legs could take us, we noticed that people were on the lake in pedalos. What a better way to see the lake than to get on a rusty red boat with no stearing?! I reccommend the pedalos to anyone wanting a bit of fun around the lake! Of course we were not the only people on the lake - people in speedboats were having fun with us creating waves for our pedalo to struggle over. By the end of our half an hour we had a small audience laughing at the three strange blonde girls screaming in the pedalo!
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| The best ice-cream in Italy! |
If when you read this you are planning on taking a trip to Como yourself then you should do the following! When you arrive at Lake Como there is an gelataria with a huge but fast-moving queue outside, if you are wise you will take my advice and plonk yourself on the end and queue to spend the best 2 euros of your life! Slight exaggeration you say? I beg to differ! Tiramisu fans, your're in for a treat!
After plenty of time walking, sitting, pedalo'ing, ice-creaming and sightseeing, we walked away from the lake and into the town of Como. I literally felt as though i was walking into Duloc (The fictional town in the movie Shrek). By using this reference i guess what i'm trying to say is that the town in unbelievably pretty and it just doesn't appear to be real - there is something to catch your eye on every corner. The town is so small and everyone seems to know everyone. Como is built up of gorgeous skinny cobbled streets that link very easily therefore it is impossible to get lost! To save ourselves some pennies we packed up a lunch so that we could sit and take in the view and made the decision to chose from one of the bars to have a 'cheeky one' in the afternoon before heading back home. We chose a quirky looking bar / cafe right in the center which had an outside sitting are in the square. I could have sat there for days drinking red wine, nibble on breadsticks and staring at the beautiful people of Como.
In another section of the town we found a small cheese and ham fair. On one of the stalls a man was selling chorizo in all it's form and flavours, he offered me a taster which i took and as i chewed he made a "eeee oooorrrrr" sound repeatedly. At first i thought he was 'oinking' at me and calling me fat but it turns out he'd given me a piece of donkey chorizo... that's right ladies and gents. I ate donkey. AND I LOVED IT. At the small fair somebody had set up a game in the middle on a carpet. The aim was get your hoop over the neck of the wine bottle - which is pretty impossible when the hoop is on the end of an insanely long stick of bamboo! I'm a pretty determined soul so once i picked up the bamboo i wasn't putting it down until i had won! Here is a photograph of my victory - it only took me 16 minutes...
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| Imogen and I - Como |
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