Time to explore! we hired a car and "Team Punto" was born...what an amazing couple of days!
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| this not a Fiat Punto... |
Lake Maggiore actually means Major Lake (which is a rather disappointingly unsexy moniker...)
However considering I travelled through towns such as Busto Arsizio, Cartorate and saw a shopping centre called the Conad Centre...I guess it's really not so bad....:0)
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| the Asti summer palace is much more "Disney" than this, but it's a bit rainy for a photo, so this will have to do... |
The area is a mecca for the rich and famous, the Summer Palace of the Asti Spumante family is found here, it's hard to imagine that a drink as tacky tara as that could result in such a splendid reward!
It is also home to yup...George Clooney (well his holiday home at least) more about that later!...
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| what a wonderful idea! beautiful mixed tomatoes |
Day one we drove around "our" Lake and did a quick flit into Switzerland (well why wouldn't you?) however, I find it truly fascinating that I have been able to waltz into Italy and swish into Switzerland and not ONE person has asked to see my passport, yet I cant take hand cream or a bottle of water on to the plane....hmmmm, food for thought.... Day two we headed to Lake Como and into George territory...
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| Switzerland is a very organised country, you need tickets for everything... |
We stopped in at beautiful little towns on the way around, and due to a detour through the mountains we discovered that a Punto has a warp speed power button that is required for manual hill starts when in an almost upright position on the side of said mountain (its called the air-conditioner...) great job to our designated driver Pete! Also to Lucy who was in charge of making sure we didn't scrape the side mirrors on the walls...and Trish who did a marvellous job on navigating(we also discovered that trying to go backwards with Italian "where the hell is it"printed off is actually quite challenging)...my contribution was at each intersection turn to the "wrong side" of the road..."passenger to the curb"...Good job Team Punto! We earned those drinks at the end of the day!
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| more delicious places.... |
and then... yes of course we found Georges house... unfortunately he was in Costa Rica (according to the workmen down the road) and we couldn't find the mat with the key under it... but we did manage to see his helicopter, his hovercraft and his doorbell....
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| Hola George! oops! I mean Buenos Aires oops! I mean Buonasera... Spangitalish it will get you everywhere!... |
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| and this is not Georges yacht, however, hows that capsule wardrobe packing! like a good Girl Guide I am nothing if not prepared! |
Back to Valencia tomorrow, what a glorious Italian sojourn!
Thanks for sharing xxx
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