Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September 2024.
Yesterday we stayed in a Sosta in Verbania, it was only a short distance from the previous nights stopover but the town looked interesting and it had an arboretum/ botanical gardens that were well recommended .
However as we arrived at 11am it began to rain heavily and didn’t stop until 10pm, during the afternoon we donned our waterproofs and took Layla for a long walk and then we went to the supermarket about 30m away to stock up.
This morning it was dry and we headed to Lake Como stopping en route to fill up with LPG, it was a good price!!
A great deal of the journey was on motorways or equivalent,a small section being toll, but we went through numerous tunnels on all the roads, Ive seen more concrete than scenery. However we eventually came out onto a narrow road with a 30 k speed limit that hugged the shoreline and made for some interesting driving as in parts it was only wide enough for one vehicle.
I managed to pull into a small lay-by that was full of cars just long enough to take some photos over the lake.
In the lay-by were two men who were cutting back the growth along a wall, I’m not sure if they had taken the health and safety course.
We are staying on this campsite near a small town called Dongo, we are parked about 10m from the lake, the pitches are large enough but it can be a squeeze reversing into them. It has superb laundry facilities and for 4 euros you can wash and dry as much as you like and there was an iron and ironing board there for you to use, it goes without saying that Michelle and Alison took advantage of the laundry room.
The site leads right out onto a foot path alongside the lake and there is a narrow shingle beach in places, of course Layla took the opportunity to have a paddle.
We walked a short way alongside the lake before heading inland finding two supermarkets and strangely a bar where we we managed to convey that we wanted a beer and wine.
As I sit here writing this blog at 7.30 pm it has started to rain lightly and thunder is rolling around the mountains with the occasional flash of lightning, tomorrow is forecast to be sunny and warm.
taraabit 