A short 4 day visit to Milan started when we landed at Malpensa and picked up a car to take a drive to the nearby Lake Maggiore, less than an hour away. The sun was shining as we descended the hilly road into Stresa and the lake was stunning in it blue green colour. The Borromean Islands were easily seen from the shore and we decided to spend a few hours exploring Stresa rather than being stuck on a boat cruising between the islands…
The railway station in Stresa where we parked in a free white parking lot…..there’s plenty of parking here and it’s an easy walk into town…The streets of Stresa were lined with interesting little shopsthe view from Stresa across Lake Maggiore towards Pallanzathe pier where all the boat operators dock and not far from the shore, our view of the Isola Madre, the largest of the Borromean Islands where there is a botanic garden….Enjoying the view towards Isola BellaNear the jetty a cormorant posedFrom the cormorants we saw in Bangalore a few weeks ago to the Cormorants here in Italy….such an adaptable birdCoot on the waterCrow posingA rather smart sea gull on the pierAfter a few hours in Stresa, we headed back to Milan to our hotel, the Melia Milano…..
I was concerned about whether I could park the hire car easily in Milan but as it turns out, there were plenty of nearby blue paid parking lots at 2 euro an hour and we just used the metro whilst in Milano.
of course no visit to MIlan is complete without visiting the church where…the Last Supper mural by Leonardo da Vinci is….Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
Just a short trip to Milan which is always interesting and the visit to Lake Maggiore was the icing on the cake.
Hi Ron
What a lovely trip. Great photos, and holiday tips. Love the pictures of the birds and the city.
Love Belinda