Reset search
Satellite
Search this area

Italy San Giovanni

Discover travel destinations of travelers writing a travel journal on FindPenguins.
Travelers at this place
  • TravelerItaly 🇮🇹 2024
    1
    Day 8

    More Bellaggio & Como!

    October 27, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    We got the scoop on the lifestyles of the rich and famous...and fascist! I will comment on each villa. Richard Branson, Taylor Swift, the heirs to the Guinness fortune, Franz Liszt and, yep, Bonito Mussolini and his mistress!Read more

  • TravelerItaly 🇮🇹 2024
    11
    Day 4

    Bellagio

    October 23, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Bellagio is the most famous and busiest town on Lake Como. We climbed a really steep hill to get away from the crowds and had a delicious lunch overlooking the lake. And for dessert? Gelato, of course!Read more

  • Karen CottonEurope 2024
    1
    Day 30

    There's always that one day

    June 16, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Travel day. We got up super early to catch our water taxi - left our apartment at 6.40. Went to the taxi depot for them to ring our taxi (I don't see the benefit of prebooking this service). She gave very detailed description where the water taxi would arrive. We waited and waited - no taxi.
    Brett sprinted back to the taxi depot to check our pick up point and the taxi lady yelled at him that we were in the wrong spot. Brett saw our taxi starting to reverse out of the dock so he jumped on the taxi as it was backing out. The driver was not happy. He was even unhappier when he realised he had to drive around to another jetty pick us up. We tipped him. He was slightly happier.
    Got to the Venice train station. Train strike! Most trains were cancelled but we were lucky and our train headed off to Milan. Arrived in Milan and most trains were again cancelled. Ours is not. Winning! It was delayed 50 minutes but we were happy to wait. Just before our 50 minutes was up - train was cancelled. Not winning!
    Couldn't get a driver. Further trains were cancelled. Not looking good. Graham went to two ticket offices and the second gave us an alternative train, but it was about to leave. We ran to the platform and dragged our bags up multiple flights of stairs. Bree was standing one foot on the train and one on the platform so it wouldn't leave without us. Threw our bags on just in time .... and then sat on the train for 45 minutes.
    Eventually made it to Como train station. Huge queue for taxis. Graham bought us tickets for the regional bus. Nowhere to store our bags so threw them on seats, which was fine until lots of people got on the bus. The driver was a grumpy bum and drove like a maniac. Made it to Bellagio. Now to climb the stairs with all our luggage.
    The girls threw our bags on their backs and Brett sprinted up the stairs with Bon's suitcase on his shoulders. Thank goodness they have been working out at the gym.
    Ten hours after we left our apartment in Venice we finally arrived in Bellagio. Brett was saying look at the lovely view. I don't care.    Read more

  • Martha SleutelItaly & Switzerland
    3
    Day 4

    Italian fashion

    September 8, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F

    I mentioned earlier the dresses women wear in the Lake Como towns, including on hikes! Some are loose sun dresses, but many are, well, night-club types, showing ample cleavage and some rather tight. Older women wear long and short dresses also, but usually looser. Often with pearls!!!!! We realized that most of the tourists to that area come from Milan (the fashion capitol). So, maybe these are typical Italian fashions?

    The men either wear TIGHT jeans, or just the usual casual clothes, including shorts.

    Below is a samping, and definitely NOT the best, just the ones where I could sneakily get photos.    Read more

  • TravelerEurope
    3
    11
    Day 11

    Bellagio, the Pearl of Lake Como

    July 20, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    After a couple hours on the water, we hopped off the boat at Bellagio, a town of about 4,000 on the point between the two branches of Lake Como. It was stunning and we had a great time exploring the cobbled streets.Read more

  • TravelerLearning To Swim
    1112
    Day 10

    Como to Belaggio

    August 26, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Walking up in Como with a view of the lake is devine. Our first hot breakfast of bacon and eggs.

    We book a hydrofoil to Bellagio.
    45 minutes at 14.00 euro.
    I spot George Clooney's villa Oleandra. His speedboat is parked out front.

    We embark at Bellagio. It is small and quaint and much quieter than Como.

    Lunch is at a restaurant called Suisse on the waterfront. Another chardy another onion soup.

    We walk through the streets, up steep cobblestone walkways with shops on each side.

    I buy a little hand fan. We sit in the shady gardens overlooking the lake in the coolness as it is very warm today.

    We head toward Villa Melzi and we are lucky to find it open until 6.30. It is 5pm. So a wander around the botanic gardens with species of trees and plants from all over the world. The main villa is closed but we walk through the family chapel and museum.

    On our map it shows WC which I am in need of, so I tell Athena I am looking for the water closet. I come back all happy 😊 it is then that she learns that I went to the Loo. Well off she went herself.

    Enjoying my leisurely stroll, next minute I roll my ankle for the 3rd time on this trip. Almost fall down the hill. I expected Athena to be laughing but she looked horrified.

    We come out of the Villa exactly on gate closing time. Walk back to the town and we find out the ferry does not go to Como and are told to take the bus. I thought that is ridiculous. We walk further up to the little Port and walk straight on a Hydrofoil. Which zooms us home across the water. Athena nearly falls asleep on the boat so we head up to our room for a nap.

    At 9.30pm, we decide to get dinner otherwise we will wake at midnight starving.
    I had the home made spaghetti with seafood. God it was good. Then off to bed.    Read more

  • TravelerMy Camino and them some

    Lake Como Italy

    April 24 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    The drive thru the alps was stunning
    Pictures just don’t do justice
    Lake Como was lovely and the weather stunning even freed the knees for the first time in Europe
    Off to Verona Milan and Venice
    Have day in Venice then onto the boat for the last stage
    Ready to be in one room for a while
    Luego    Read more

  • TravelerCarpe Diem
    Day 17

    George Clooney for a day

    September 16, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Today I got to be George Clooney for a day. George owns a house on Lake Como which has done a lot to draw attention to the area and increase its notoriety. Rick Steves suggestion was to take the train up to a town on the east of the lake called Varenna, maybe do a ferry ride on the lake to another town before returning to Varenna. Varenna was a very picturesque Como lake town originally built without roads for automobiles but which were added in later. Known for its large lakeside estates with beautiful gardens I enjoyed a nice roam through town before visiting one of the lakeside villas and garden. Rick's tour didn't take as long as I had thought so also on his recommendation I decided to take a ferry to Como at the most southern tip of the lake and then take the train back from there rather than Varenna.Billed by the ticket office as a 2:15 minute journey it turned into a 3 hour journey. Some of the ferries don't do all the stops.It was nice after the first few stops as pretty well the majority of people disembarked. I chatted a lot with a funeral home owner from Dayton Ohio and an Australian couple from Sydney. The funeral home owner from Dayton said he noticed a dramatic drop off in deaths from Covid after the vaccine was released in March 2021. He said that no matter what people say about the vaccine it had a pretty dramatic effect on Covid deaths. I think it is easy for us to forget that. I saw a lot of the lake and many of the beautiful villas along the shorelines. We even went by George Clooney's house. All in all it was a pleasant way to spend a day.Read more

  • TravelerComer See 🛵💗✨🇮🇹
    1
    Day 5

    Varenna

    August 27, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Mit der Fähre sind wir nach Varenna gefahren. Dort konnten wir für 9€ 2 botanische Gärten der Villa Monastera und Cipressi besichtigen. Anschließend gab es Aperol to go🍊. Gerade waren wir essen in einem schönen, preiswerten Restaurant.Read more

    See translation
  • Tanya DalzielEurope and the 5 stans
    Day 33

    Lake Como (Bellagio)

    June 26, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    We spent 3 nights pretending we were rich and famous in Bellagio. I don't think we fooled anyone!

    This area is absolutely gorgeous. However, the tourists in this area seemed a little different to other areas - maybe wealthier? We didn't feel like we fit in quite as well. I'm sure I didn't look the part walking up the street with my backpack. 🤣

    Nevertheless, we had a lovely time visiting Menaggio and Varenna on the ferry and having a wine in each village. Our highlight was kayaking in Bellagio.    Read more

Join us:

FindPenguins for iOSFindPenguins for Android

  • 2025© FindPenguins
  • Home
  • About us
  • Group Tracking
  • Press
  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy & Cookies
  • Help Center
  • Legal notice