Blake & I just celebrated our 10 year anniversary in May and took a trip (Blake’s first ever) to Italy! We had an amazing time and I highly recommend going in early May because the weather was amazing! It wasn’t too busy with tourists yet either. The kids stayed with my parents and continued their normal routine with school and daycare. I wasn’t quite ready to spend weeks away from them yet so our trip was only Monday to Monday and because of that it was jam packed! Even so, we still thoroughly enjoyed it. The food was possibly our favorite part of all, so let’s get into it. 🙂
Lake Como was only a ONE night stay for us since our trip was short, but it was one thousand perfect worth it! We flew into Milan and then arrange for a car service to our hotel at Hotel Florence in Bellagio. Bellagio is one of the more popular towns on Lake Como… and was the perfect place to stay and had amazing places to eat & shop, too. The weather was beautiful, but I did get a little chilly in the evening!
Hotel Florence in Bellagio was stunning! (See above.) Once we settled into our place, we explored the Giardini di Villa Melzi which is a botanical garden with lakeside pathways. It was so picturesque… like out of a movie! I believe it cost us 8 euros to enter the gardens.
After exploring the gardens, we headed to dinner at La Lanterna in Bellagio which I highly recommend as well! It’s honestly hard to go wrong with any food in Italy, haha.
We ended our night early so we could catch up on sleep, and the next morning we were off to the ferry to cross the lake to Varenna so we could catch our train to Florence! We rode over a little early so that we could eat at a cute place in Varenna but it was REALLY tough lugging our bags across the cobblestones to get to the restaurant.
Once we got to the the place we were eating, it was so worth the view… but it was still really comical trying to pull our luggage around and through the crowds and small walkways.
There are so many more spots in Lake Como that I’d love to explore so I hope we can make it back again soon! It is highly worth your time and travel for these views & amazing food!
