Raison d'etre

It was true love that scooted us out the door and onto a jet to Italy. My daughter fell in love with a young man from San Fermo della Battaglia, a small town in the province of Como, and a June wedding was set. The happy couple planned to spend their first week of married bliss with both sets of parents in Rome, to give us all a holiday we would never forget. Who could say "no" to such a proposition?

So, with rental car and portable wifi we sped down unfamiliar highways until we made Como, to do battle with its multiple roundabouts. The roundabouts won; even, or should I say, especially with gps!

But...the lake; perfectly blue, broken only by the lush, green hills growing out of its boundaries. The water was high due to the amount of rainfall in the last couple of weeks, and it gently lapped the shoreline, nearly flush with the docks. It was an eye magnet. Everywhere we drove required a jaunt by the lake, and we drank in its picture postcard beauty.