Como Lago

26 April 2007
after all the hectic-frantic Milan fair mad rush, Gan suggested a trip to Como Lago and so, we went! Yian fell ill on that day so yups only 4-1 of us.. The weather was cool and a little foggy. but anw, Como Lago is still beautiful. i like this place. after grabbing 2 tourist maps from the tourist point, we basically just followed the route on it.

first stop: Duomo at Como Lago! not as glamourous as milan's. it's more toned down and humble. a different period's work i think. beside it there's an old town hall (the pink,white,grey stripes one) and further left, there is a clock tower. the piazza in front of this duomo is fairly small and is lined with cafes. looks like a really nice place! the place is filled with narrow streets lined with shops. on that day, just nice, there's this man playing music, so it was veeerrry nice~~ imagine slow relaxing day+music! happy.
inside the duomo (anw, it means cathedral in italian). candles burning; light seeping through the window; quiet; colourful stain glass:)
next, we followed the tourist map we have and went on to look for the theatre, then a palazzo. the theatre's just behind the duomo. on our way to look for the palazzo, we saw pretty orange flowers :) then guess what? contrary to what we were expecting, the palazzo turned out to be this modern building that we felt was really out of place in the town. we actually walked right pass it the first time and were like checking the map asking ourselves 'how come never see the palazzo?' haiyo, 原来就是这个了...

the town centre's really small. we went on by foot to see the other attractions - the other church and a defence tower... nice.
soon, it was LUNCH TIME!! went back to the lake side to enjoy our packed lunch plus added mac food. i really enjoy just sitting by the lake, relaxing, eating, chatting. it's good to spend time like this...
after lunch, hehe... i suggested eating gelato. so yeahh~~ gelato! our neighbour told us a place where there's a church made of seashells and brad pitt&angelina jolie got married there. we wanted to get that out one... even got the bus tix.. but waited and waited very long for the bus... it was getting late and we have lessons in the evening... see, wait until start to check out the weird weighing balance (??!) by the lake and start self-entertaining...

in the end, we decided we have not enough time, so we'll come como lago again with yian next time to check that out. anw, we also want to go up the hill/mountain plus explore the other areas further away.

and so, we just walked along the lake to a land extension in the lake. there are boats all around. could also see some people canoeing in the lake. nice~.

towards the end of the extension, besides finding a young couple kissing and doing PDA, we also found lotsa locks! apparently, there's this belief that if you write your names and lock it, you will never part (or sth like that. there's even a song about this!). yeah. haha... romantic? at first gan and i saw this really big power lock and we thought that was the winner lock liao. but see, there's even more power ones that come with CHAINS. haha... ok... the benches there also filled with 'xxx ti amo xxx' (=xxx love xxx). yah...

hung out there for a while then needa go back to school. on our way passed by a pond in front of a hotel. look! got cute ducklings~~

Ahh... lazy relax day for us ah......................