Italy...a Wedding, Winston and the Pope....

I have just spent the last week in the lake districts of Northern Italy...we gathered here to Celebrate the Wedding of Fran and Michael...


What an extravaganza!

as you can see, it's an awful part of the world!

Exquisite...

Married by the Lord Mayor(ess) of Baverno in an exquisite Villa, with the eight course reception dinner held on the island in this photo...the epitome of good taste and good times...

Such an incredible opportunity to catch up with friends to share and create memories for a life time...

the pool boys domain

Our hotel 

The Lido Palace is elegant old world colonial and class personified...

T with your G?...

20 foot ceilings 6ft chandeliers in the dining room and black and white clad spunky Italian waiters who know how to add a touch of tonic to your Gin!

In fact it's where Winston Churchill spent his honeymoon, we had drinks in the the suite and I feel sure that if the walls could talk that room (in fact the hotel it's self would have some stories to tell...) 

It is also home to the mother (or should that be Father of all snow domes...)

Feast your eyes on this little baby, possibly a 200 year old antique, totally not but is sounds really good, and this is a family owned  hotel so it could well be possible.... 

Il Papa snow ball...

       

Thanks for sharing! xxx