Lake Como

After our six hour class on Saturday the 6th, some of the guys from my class decided they wanted to play ultimate with me! Most of them are from India, and on their campus, they played a very different form of ultimate. They are really small fields, and you don't pass to a receiver, but just through a goal. (I told them that this is not how real ultimate was played lol) After ultimate, we were supposed to go on a water canal tour, but we got the times all mixed up, so we ended up missing it.

This is when we decided that we would go to Lake Como (located north of Milan), so we boarded the 7pm train for 3.60E (so cheap!) and arrived at Lake Como in less than an hour. From there we went in search of housing, and settled on the Ostello Villa Olmo, a hostel found from our Lonely Planet guide! It was only 15E a night, with breakfast included. So Binoy, CD, and I dropped our things off, and headed out to dinner. The lake was beautiful at night, but none of those pictures came out that great. Here's one of the lake and some store fronts at night. And this was also the first time Binoy and I had gelato in Italy, and it was delicious! Now I crave gelato and Fanta everyday!

There was a 12:00AM curfew at the hostel, so we had to pack it in pretty early. It was a good idea though, because we ended up waking up at 7:30 to catch the 9:15 ferry to Bellagio. The boat ride was incredible. It was 7.90E for the 2 hour boat ride, and it was gorgeous. It was exactly what I expected Italy to look like. There were mountains with clouds cast over them, there were little towns on the waterfront, and there was even a waterfall!

So we finally arrived at Bellagio (the casino in Vegas is named after this town!), and it honestly felt like a short ride since we took pictures the entire time. It is a picturesque little town set on the lake, and upwards onto mountains. We shopped around, took lots of pictures, and ate gelato (of course). The rain was falling on and off all day. We took the hour bus ride back to Lake Como, which was extremely scary. The roads are only wide enough for one car/bus, and we're basically weaving up mountains and forcing other veichles to back up and out of our way. All in all, it was a great trip, and exactly what I needed.