Monza!

We didn’t go to the Italian Grand Prix Formula 1 Race at Monza on Sunday, September 1st, but we did the next best thing. We took a train from Varenna to Monza (not far from Milan) on Saturday, August 31st and went to the city’s race festival. Another extremely hot day–I spent a lot of […]

Castello di Vezio at Varenna

Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]

Castello di Vezio at Varenna

Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]