Hello Como

 But first the bad train pics thru the Alps. The ride was smooth, easy and with no problems at all after many ‘the trains are GREAT! If there are no strikes…’ worries. 

And then we arrived in Como. I declared ‘travel has been so nice and easy’. Kirk said ‘and you just jinxed us’. And so it was..

Sunshine!  Such a pretty day. We were outside looking for a taxi and decided to call and Uber. We waited and waited to connect to a car and then decided to walk down to the park across the street and see if I could find a better place to get a car. The roads were blocked off and police were all over. A kind gentleman asked the police where to wait for an Uber and he came back and told me all the roads were closed for a bike race until 4pm. Tour de Lombardi!  He felt terrible for me and for his English (which was excellent btw). He went on to tell me he spent a portion of his childhood in Illinois and asked where I was from. He excited told me his wife gets her makeup from LA! Anyway!  I made it back to Kirk and while normally it would have been cool to watch the race we were both just frustrated and started to walk toward town with our luggage thinking we would have better options. I may not have ever told anyone this but one of the things I fear/hate is the thought of dragging my luggage through a town!  Well we did. For miles. 😩We finally sat down to eat and DRINK (this drink was so bad I left it and ordered a prosecco) to cool off and wait for the race to be over, thinking 4 pm was close. Well come to find out it was actually 6 pm. And my battery was dying. And my phone had the wifi. Another kind man tried to help but finally I just walked into a bar and got their wifi and called our hotel. They were finally able to come get us. By this time it was 7pm. We showered, Kirk had a beer and we went to be and slept 11 hours. 

We did get one great photo before dark. This is the view from our hotel room.  It’s quite special here  but we are expecting rain all day today!