Lake Como

This will be dull reading for a lot of you because you read it all 2 years ago, but when you look at the photos you understand why we're back.

We had our 30th wedding anniversary here in 2011 and the weather was superb. We get here this year and there's snow on the mountains with a cold wind. Our next door neighbours are English and said they had had 2 sunny days so far, and when they left to come here it had been freezing and hailing. Seems weather is weird all over.

This is downtime on our holiday, we sit in the sun (actually shining today), read books, catch up on walking, and visit the Van. The van visits Varenna, 20 mins walk from our apartment in Fiumelatte, twice a week. It is a portable deli with some of the yummiest local produce. All the locals line up to purchase their goodies and look at us strangely, we don't fit in. Soon enough it's my turn and I babble my order in Italian and surprisingly get what I want, in fact, get what I think you would like too.

 

French meets Italian for dinner on the terrace. The Camembert we bought in Bordeaux was not ripe at the time so have tansported it to Fiumelatte along with a tin of Rillettes de Canard au Piment d'Espelette from the Toulouse Markets, one of John's impulse buys.

 

 Altogether, a feast.............