Tremezzo, Italy, Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The apartment we rented in Bellagio was only available for two nights, so we rented a hotel room in Tremezzo for our third night in Lake Como. Tremezzo is across the lake from Bellagio, so we took the car ferry again this morning (after retrieving the car and doing a little souvenir shopping) across the lake. Tremezzo looks somewhat like Bellagio, only smaller, but this time our hotel was up the mountainside a little rather than right in town.

Scarf shopping was popular with Tracy and Maddie

Tracy, Maddie and Mac on the ferry boat to Tremezzo

View of Bellagio from the ferry boat

Ferry boat that took us and the car to Tremezzo

View of Tremezzo, Italy from ferry boat

Albergo Villa Edy was very nice with beautiful grounds and a lovely swimming pool, which the kids were keen to use. We immediately got into our bathing suits and swam for about an hour or so before drying off and heading to the hotel snack bar for lunch. The hotel has a lovely terrace overlooking the grounds with a small area that has a view of the lake, and the staff was kind and gracious. The kids had been dying to swim so much after getting a taste of it this morning that we just spent the afternoon doing more of the same. Maddie has not even been to our pool in Charlotte so far this summer and McIntyre has only been a few times. He’s getting much better at swimming and using the pool gave us a chance to try out the water wings that we bought to use in Cinque Terre.

Albergo Villa Edy

Hotel pool

View of Lake Como from the hotel

Tracy and Mac hanging at the hotel

More views from the hotel

We didn’t see much of Tremezzo, but then again there’s really not all that much to do other than admire the scenery, visit villas (not something the kids were interested in, and again, George Clooney forgot to invite us to his), so we were fine just having a day of fun. After swimming, we just showered and went into Tremezzo for dinner at a restaurant on the lake front called Il Timon, then back to the hotel. The kids hung out in the room (which was a little stuffy due to no AC) and we hung out at the terrace having wine and using the wifi to blog, check email etc. (the wifi did not work in our room).

A floating pool in Tremezzo, Italy

Tracy doing some late night blogging.