Today turned out to be a bit of a non-event mostly because of the weather. Our plan was to tour through the Lake Como region but the weather didn’t cooperate. We drove from Bergamon to Varenna in a gentle rain, but by the time we arrived it was pouring. We had hoped to visit some of the villas in the area, one with a must-see garden and another that had been used for one of the Star War movies. We decided to scrap our plans and just head for Turin. This required a ferry ride to Bellagio and an interesting drive down to Como; one with lots of twists and turns and very narrow passages through small towns. The remainder of the drive to Turin was on yet another Autostade through the very flat Lombardy plain, where we were able to lots of rice fields. The speed limit is 130 km/hr but there were many cars that blew past us going at least 150!

Our hotel in Turin is right downtown and we have probably the smallest rooms we’ve had of the whole trip. Fortunately, we’re only here for two nights and at least they provide BBC on the TV. We spent the late afternoon resting and then walked down the street to a restaurant for dinner. Coffee was purchasd at MacDonalds while walking off our dinner.

We have plans to visit two museums tomorrow and have yet to decide what we’ll do on our last night in Italy.