This morning we said arrivederci to beautiful Levanto and took the windy road (with multiple tunnels) to the beautiful Lake Orta. This was our final drive with Mario. When we arrived at Hotel La Bussola we thanked him, unloaded the bus and he was off. Meanwhile we settled into our hotel before walking down to the Piazza Mario Motta in Orta San Giulio. We had free time for lunch before catching a boat out to the Isola San Giulio. Here we did the Walk of Silence and reflected on our journey. Later on in the evening we had our final group dinner. It was a nice meal shared with our Italian Famiglia.
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Highlights: A highlight of the day was certainly a relaxing lunch on the docks. Also, on the bus ride over Trish told us a wonderful story, the story of our adventure together. Wow, we've done a lot!
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Lowlights: The only downside of today was that it was entirely too short. Our stay at Lake Orta was much too short. It was a stunning day!
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This morning we had a filling breakfast before hopping into the van that Trish had planned for a majority of our group to get us back to Milan. The drive was relatively short, and soon we were hopping out of the van in front of the Milan train station. It took a bit for us to orient ourselves and figure out where we were, but soon we were checking into our hotel. Shortly after that we were back on the train and heading out to Lake Como. Rather than spend our last day in Italy in the city we wanted to go back to the lake. It was a stunning day! We had so much fun taking the ferry out to Bellagio from the town of Varenna. It was the perfect way to end our fantastic adventure!
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Hightlights: Our whole day in Lake Como was stunning. We had a lovely day! Our pizza dinner was delicious!
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Lowlights: Today was our final day in Italy, so there was a bit of a sadness to the day, but we also were excited to be returning home soon!
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