CHAPTER 10
Ferry rides are fun, and hanging out at the local lido (community swimming beach) is definitely worth doing if you are visiting Lake Como, but we couldn’t rightly spend all this time and money to come to such an idyllic expanse of Italian water without getting out there on it and really giving it its due. So we arranged to rent a little motor boat, and set off early the next morning with a picnic, some vino, and our bathing suits. We spent about eight hours speeding up and down the length of the lake, stopping sporadically to jump in and swim, or just sit and marvel at the prodigious villas, with their manicured lawns and private beaches, that dot the lakes shores. It was the perfect way to get a true glimpse of this playground for the rich and famous, and a perfect way to spend our time on Lake Como, for as the Rat from Wind and the Willows says “There is nothing- absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
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