Authored at December 22, 2007, 4:15pm local time

* WPG2 CANNOT LOCATE GALLERY2 ITEM ID 3367 *After seeing the Da Vinci, I changed itineraries and decided to head to Como, about an hour north of Milan, under Kim’s recommendation. It’s a smaller town at the southern tip of a two-pronged lake up in the mountains. The pictures show the beauty.

* WPG2 CANNOT LOCATE GALLERY2 ITEM ID 3382 *Como is also the home of Alessandro Volta, the creator of the battery, among other inventions. As such, they have a museum in his honor, which was quite interesting, at least to me with my engineering background.

After the museum, I took a ferry up to Bellagio about half-way up the lake. The town was mostly closed up, but I enjoyed my first Italian espresso and wandered on foot through cobblestone alleys and stairways, to find some breathtaking panoramas. Click on the little thumbnail here to see what I mean.

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