Friday 24 May - another day of rest and relaxation. Breakfast in the apartment consisting of fried eggs, tomato and toast. Morning coffee at one café in the piazza, lunch at another. Meals were interspersed with strolling around town, writing my blog, reading, watching Miss Marple and Father Brown on the English channel and afternoon beers at the Bistro for Michael and Max. Michael also took another load of washing to the dry cleaners.
Michael also got into the habit of taking his book to a bench directly down from our steep flight of steps, on the edge of Lake Como. He read, watched the boats come and go, ate gelato, conversed with other bench sitters. Very relaxing way to spend time while on holidays.
That evening, we dined at the Albergo Ristorante on the corner of our alleyway. Norman was our waiter, who buzzed about very attentively. As a starter, he brought out a glass of Prosecco each for each of us, on the house. I asked him where he was from, with a name like Norman. He said he was born in Italy but his parents both just liked the English name. Our meals were served fairly quickly, enough to cause conjecture that the meals might be par cooked, in particular the pasta. In any event the food was tasty enough. I had grilled sea bass, with vegetables. Michael had calzone pizza, Max and Eve had pasta dishes. We had profiteroles for dessert, followed by the obligatory Limoncello. We retired at a reasonable hour, having made plans to visit Como the next day, catching the hydrofoil at 6.30am!
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