A Day Over Lago Maggiore

We slept in late and had a great breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, we drove around the south end of the lake and up to the town of Stresa, where we took a cable car from the lakeside, at an elevation of about 500 feet, to the top of Mount Mottaroni at 4,500 feet. The views over the Lake District were spectacular and since the top of the lake is in Switzerland, the Swiss Alps are looming just to the north.

After the gondola ride, we took our time driving south along the west side of the lake, through little towns, and stopping for espresso and gelato on the way. The Sunday evening traffic leaving the lake was bumper to bumper and crawled until we got past the south end of the lake and heading back north against the flow heading home to Milan at the end of the weekend.

Back at the hotel, we had dinner at the hotel, overlooking the lake.