WE MADE IT TO ITALY SAFE AND SOUND

Well this is the guy who got us safely to Italy.  It looks kind of small for such a long trip (about 8 hours).  Believe me, it was small and got smaller after 8 hours.  Food was typical airplane food, breakfast was questionable but edible.  The flight, however, went smoothly and we hit very little turbulence   Getting our car rental and finding our way out of Malspensa Airport was interesting.  We got the car ok but finding our way our of the airport was challenging.  We saw the terminal at least 5 or 6 times, then finally got out of that circle are found the road out.  There was a lot of horn blowing and word shouting.  Thank god we didn't understand all those nice words people were shouting at us because I might have had to revert to my Waterbury upbringing.  I never did, however, use the famous Waterbury salute, but I wanted to.   We did finally make it to our first destination, Cernobbio, Italy on Lake Como.  This is a beautiful lakeside village with a mountainous backdrop.  We did walk around for a while just to get the lay of land and had a nice lunch lakeside (pizza and caprese salad, what else in Italy).  The hotel is beautiful.  We have a nice room with a lake view.  Last night we had dinner lakeside and tried the local lake fish.  It's not grouper or sea bass, but it was edible.   We tried it once and that will probably be it.  I had perch and Brenda had some other kind of lake fish.  We're having a great time and everything is good.  Stay tuned, more to follow.  Ray and Brenda