Aug 20 - Menaggio (Day trip to Varenna)

 Aug 20 - Menaggio (Day trip to Varenna)

Not really a ‘Day trip’, ‘cos it’s only a 15 minute ferry ride, but over Lake Como we went and spent the day wandering around Varenna.  To be honest, and as nice as these lakeside towns are, there really isn’t a lot to see and do here.  It’s not a criticism but it’s more like we thought of Maastricht in the Netherlands, a lovely place to go away for a long weekend for food and drink and take in the scenery.  I might be being a bit unfair, friends of ours can go away for a week and do absolutely nothing and have a great time, but 3 or 4 days for us is probably enough (he says bearing in mind that after here we’re off to Lake Garda! Oops! 🤔😆)

Anyway Varenna IS a nice place and after a wander through town we had a bit of a stroll along the ‘coast’ to Fiumelatte, a much, much smaller, and quieter, version of its northerly neighbour. 



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