Next stop, Bellagio! Bellagio is a village in Italy on the shore of Lake Como. The village consists of two main streets, one which runs along the seafront, and the other which is located further up the hill and accessible via one of a number of steps from the seafront road to the top. This road is narrow and attractive with mainly tousity shops (as the seafront road) and a church in an attractive square. The different branches of Lake Como can be seen here at Bellagio if walking down to the end and apparently there is a garden to visit. We only had an hour and a half in order to get late lunch and have a quick walk around to see as much as we could see.
Below shows Lake Como at the point where the lakes join in the middle.
I stopped and had gelato at one of the shops at the top of the village. I realised afterwards that I should have had mint, strawberry and lemon instead of mint, melon, and lemon so that the colours would be the Italian flag colours instead of the Ireland flag colours. The mint was particularly very refreshing, and the lemon was spot on too. Lemon sorbet is actually my favourite. (I also had grape sorbet later on in my trip, and I love grape-flavoured items, but they don't have much of that in the UK as it's always blackcurrant, which I dislike).
Glimpses of the lake could be seen from the top road. It was just too beautiful not to take many photographs of.
And these mountain photographs are also to die for with the red impatiens.
Finally, our time at Bellagio came to an end.
Bye bye, Bellagio. I would have loved to have more time to spend here and would have liked to have seen the gardens, which were apparently a ten-minute walk up the coast. I did not have much time to look around.
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