Looking out our balcony at Las Palmas
Las Palmas at Stressa
After Como, we continued our journey to our last stop of the tour, to Stressa, a quiet village on Lake Maggiore, in the Italian Alps. The long body of water extends to Switzerland. This is the lake Hemingway's protagonist, Fredrick, and his pregnant lover used to escape by boat from their responsibilities in Farewell to Arms.
The Hotel Palma on the lakeshore, was most comfortable. Our tour concluded with a first class dinner complimented with excellent wine. There were many interesting people on this tour, including a physicist, Peter, who help develop the MRI, an engineer and his wife from Salt Lake and an extended family from Texas, including a mother daughter pair. All together there were no real jackasses in the group, which really helped to make the tour so successful.
At dawn, before we took the bus to the Malpensa Airport in Milan we scambled to the lakeshore for one last picture. We are very happy as you can see.
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