The light of the sun was slowly fading when we arrived in Piazza Roma, the entrance to Venice if you are coming in by land. This European trip is work related for my husband. I just tagged along as everything was organized for us. We were booked in a hotel in Mestre (just across the …

To continue the exciting adventure (and whether I caught the plane)…. BELLAGIO After about 2 hours of traversing and stopping on little villages in our Batello, we docked in a town called Bellagio, known as the “pearl of Lake Como”. If you look at the map at the start of the previous post, the village …

I had a day to myself while my husband was busy looking at technical stuff near Milan in Northern Italy. I looked at the map from the hotel, and I found out that Lake Como is less than an hour’s travel by train. I had heard that a number of famous people had houses at …