Here’s a fun story from metro.co.uk about how to spend a weekend in Lake Como, nestled up against the Swiss Alps in northern Italy and surely one of the most beautiful spots in the world. One suggestion: Get a boat.
As it happened, I did just that about ten years ago with my wife Renée (see picture above), when I tested a new Hinckley 29R; it had already been launched in Maine and displayed at the U.S. shows, but it then was being introduced in Europe. We spent a long October weekend on the boat in Lake Como, and heads turned everywhere.
The Hinckley was the star (at one waterfront restaurant the owner asked if we could leave the boat at his dock overnight, for free, “because it’s so beautiful”), but Lake Como was simply overwhelming. About a two hour drive north of Milan, it’s 28 miles long, 2.8 miles wide and a glacial 1,300 feet deep.
The town of Como, laid out by Julius Caesar in the First Century B.C., is at the south end of the lake, the snow-capped Alps at the north, and pastel-hued houses, villas and villages are all around. The iconic Villa d’Este hotel and resort, built for an Italian Cardinal in 1568 and now one of the most famous and luxurious hotels in the world, is not to be missed. And we cruised (slowly) by George Clooney’s waterfront villa, but oddly enough he didn’t come out to greet us, even in the Hinckley.
You don’t need to bring your own Hinckley to enjoy Lake Como; you can charter a boat at several spots on the lake. You also can spend an entire vacation eating at all the waterfront restaurants on the lake, or in the cobblestoned villages that line the shore. If you want to see a birds-eye view of the entire lake, take the funicolare ride up to the village of Brunate and look down. Lago di Como never looked to good. Read more:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/07/spend-weekend-break-lake-como-9429327/
