George Clooney for a day

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