Lake Como, Italy

Here we are finally in Italy!!! 1st day here and we are in a beautiful room overlooking the lake and distant views over to the Alps.

Our journey has taken over 30 hours, finally landing in Milan and collecting our rent-a-car. Thank goodness for Tim, the navigator as we would never have made it here without him! The narrow winding road alongside Lake Como is quite hair-raising and we often had to pull over and breath in to let other cars and trucks through.

Had to stop on the side of the road for a rest - terrifying trip as you can see!

Now some of the views from our room...

Absolutely beautiful. The last 2 photos were taken at around 6.30pm.