Italy, for the first time

Last week, Nana came to visit with her sisters Kathy and Lee. We decided to take a short trip to Italy (3 hours on the train, including through the world's longest railway tunnel, at least on the way back). We went to Como on Lake Como, home of George Clooney (and given how good and cheap the espresso is, I don't know why he drinks Nespresso....)




I have never been to Italy before either, so I was very excited to go eat the food. NB Italy is the ideal holiday destination for the kids as 3 of their top 4 foods (Pizza, Pasta and Risotto) are Italian (for the 4th, we need to go to Japan). We were only there one night but we had the chance to eat fresh pizza, take a boat trip around Lake Como, go up some winding streets so narrow that you could reach out and touch both sides (yet Italian's drive their tiny cars round the corners at great speed), take a funicular railway up the hill, eat Gelato, and generally chill out and enjoy that everything was half the price of Switzerland.