{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-journal-js","path":"/journal/215","result":{"data":{"markdownRemark":{"html":"<h1>Lago di Garlate to Bellagio (Lago di Como)</h1>\n<h3>Thursday September 13, 2018, 16 miles (25 km) - Total so far: 6,117</h3>\n<p>miles (9,844 km)</p>\n<p>What a difference a day makes. After a long discussion about logistics\nregarding getting Carol on an appropriate train to Milan, we realised we did\nhave time to cycle round the inside shore of Lake Como. And what a good job we\ndid - it's absolutely STUNNING!! The road is mostly quiet, although there is a\nlong section in tunnels (about 4.5km). It's OK though - the noise is\nterrifying but ithe vehicles are courteous, and it's not too cramped. Bring\nlights though!</p>\n<p>We stayed at Camping Clarke, which must be high on the list of the nicest\ncampsites we've stayed at. It's up on the hillside above Bellagio, with\nwonderful views. Lovely facilities (not a squat toilet in site!!) and flat,\ngrassy pitches demarked by olive trees. You can get two small tents on one\npitch, and there are tables and chairs at each.</p>\n<p>Bellagio itself came as a complete culture shock. Sooooooo chocolate box, and\nFULL of rich, loud Americans (apologies to any Americans reading this but I\nexpect you know the type!). There is a strip of fancy hotels on the lake\nfront, with bars PACKED with tourists (plenty of obnoxious Brits there too).\nAvoid these and head to Bar San Remo, where you'll almost feel like you're\nback in Italy. Drinks are more expensive than 'usual', but they do have cheap\ntable wine. We then had dinner at 'La Grotta' - again, a pleasant antidote to\nplaces charging 44 euros for a plate of pasta......</p>\n<p>The only downside to today was the HUGE thunderstorm which filled our\nneightbours' tent with water. We were all fine, phew!!!</p>","frontmatter":{"date":null,"path":"/journal/215","title":""}}},"pageContext":{}}}