I want to start by thanking the Grand Hotel Britannia Excelsior for allowing me to use their beautiful lobby lounge as my home away office for the past 5 days. The hotel is pretty spectacular and seems to be a very popular spot with the British, hence the name I suppose http://www.grandhotelbritanniaexcelsior.com/ .
The day started out cloudy and a little cool as it has for the past few mornings. Once again, by 11 am, the clouds burnt off and we got the sun and heat for a few hours. We hiked to the St. Martin Church, the church perched on the cliff above our villa. The church was built in the 1700's with every piece of wood, brick & mortar being hauled up by mule. I think this would an unthinkable task today.
Initially, we thought the hike would be pretty daunting based on the view from our room but actually, it was a very manageable hike, great stone path, good elevation that got your heart pumping, but very doable for all levels of hiker's. It took us about 25 minutes to reach the top and the same amount of time to descend. The vistas were breath taking as the elevation is about as high as you can get over looking Lake Como. Leslie spent the afternoon reading and basically relaxing after a hectic week of touring. I am at my office at Britannia checking email and updating our website. Pretty much a daily routine.
The day started out cloudy and a little cool as it has for the past few mornings. Once again, by 11 am, the clouds burnt off and we got the sun and heat for a few hours. We hiked to the St. Martin Church, the church perched on the cliff above our villa. The church was built in the 1700's with every piece of wood, brick & mortar being hauled up by mule. I think this would an unthinkable task today.
Initially, we thought the hike would be pretty daunting based on the view from our room but actually, it was a very manageable hike, great stone path, good elevation that got your heart pumping, but very doable for all levels of hiker's. It took us about 25 minutes to reach the top and the same amount of time to descend. The vistas were breath taking as the elevation is about as high as you can get over looking Lake Como. Leslie spent the afternoon reading and basically relaxing after a hectic week of touring. I am at my office at Britannia checking email and updating our website. Pretty much a daily routine.
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