today, after coffee and cappuccino, we took the boat to Bellogio.  The lake is beautiful, with tiny towns all along the shores…each with their villas and churches with bell towers.  Everywhere there is a profusion of flowers, birds flying and ducks swimming in the lake.  Boats tied up at the shore and sailing or motoring in the water.  Our boat ride takes a couple of hours of pleasant relaxation.  In Bellagio, there are shops, restaurants and hotel entrances at dock and street level.  At several intervals along Main Street, there are flights of stairs that go up to two different levels.  We trek up to a restaurant where we ate the first time we came.  A couple of us had pasta with anchovies, one had pork in gravy and grilled veges.  Andy had a beautiful grilled fish and Suzy had a spinach soufflé with grilled veges.  After this delicious lunch, we split up and went exploring and shopping.  Went to the old church with the curious mosaic over the main altar. It depicts a man lying on the ground, surrounded by men on foot or horseback, and one man has a huge mallet raised over his head getting ready to smash the prone man’s head.  I don’t recall a Bible story of this, but it could be a local martyr or saint.  After a nice day, we re-boarded the boat back home…but we had to go one town past ours.  We caught the city bus and it dropped us off near our villa.  I stayed at the cafe and read my book while the other went home for an hour.  We met up for a pizza at dinner time.  We got a 4 cheese pizza with anchovies added.  In Rome all of the 4 cheese pizzas are white…but here in Lake Como, the add tomatoe sauce…making it a red pizza.  Both good, just different.  We went home, full and happy to our comfortable beds.  Sleeping with the windows wide open under a duvet.  Heavenly!  Loving this cool weather after the heat of Rome.  We plan on a day of relaxation at the villa tomorrow…reading, sewing, laundry and eating some of the grocery store we hauled home on Sunday.  Back when there is something of interest to report.  Ciao!