Lake Como and Menaggio were so pretty. Literally, that is the only way to describe it. Every word to describe its beauty is an understatement. It was so night to get out of a city for 2 nights and to hike.
Our hostel was not as nice as the others, but for 15 euro a night and an outdoor deck looking out over the lake, how can I really complain? The first afternoon was spent waiting for the reception to open by eating some bomb chocolate gelato and taking naps on a bench. Berlin had wiped us out real good so we hit the hay early that night in order to gear up for our hike the next day.
Little did we know that the next day was a national holiday so none of the buses were running to take us to our starting point of a 5 hour hike. So, as usual, Steph and I decide to do the hard thing and walk to the starting place by combining 3 different hiking trails, hoping we were ending up on the right trail. This actually worked pretty well, but we underestimated that the trails we were combining involved going over many different mountains instead of climbing up just one. We never made it to our original destination, but did find some pretty sweet views and ate some good chocolate so all was well.
That night, we stayed at the hostel for dinner. It turned out to be one of my favorite nights of the trip. Not only were we in a beautiful place with the sun setting over the lake, but we were in good company of other Californians, Texans, Kiwis and French-Swiss with live music.
The next morning Steph and I caught a 6am bus to Como to start an adventure that was not in our itinerary. We were going to Austria. What?
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