ITALIAN LAKES

We’re on the bus and almost approaching our hotel in Lake Maggiore when Cabbage Patch takes the stage. She informs us that some of the rooms in the hotel will have a view. Unfortunately not everyone will be lucky enough to have a view. Lucy and I already know that we have no luck with views and will probably be one of the ones that don’t get a beautiful view.

We arrive at the hotel after a long day:

We have been driving for hours. I think today is the longest route in the entire itinerary. Cabbage Patch hands over our room keys to us and we catch the lift upstairs. We open the door and walk in. Lucy heads to open the balcony door and the next thing you know she starts screaming like a lunatic that “WE HAVE A VIEW”.

Views from our balcony:

Were confused on whether to hit the cameras or to enjoy the view we have. You see, we NEVER get a view. So it was a surprise that we were rewarded. This cant be good. Something’s not right here. We usually have a view of a wall or something. Seeing this worries me.

Lucy continues screaming like a mad woman as we run outside on to the balcony. We turn around to see the remainder of our tour groups coming out to the balcony. I don’t know if it was to see the view or to see what Lucy was screaming madly about.

All of a sudden Lucy screamed she had to take a group photo and everyone lined up while Lucy climbed on top of a table. God I’ve never seen Lucy so excited in her life.

We spent the next 15minutes staring at the view and planning a party on our balcony. Our balcony was on the edge of the hotel meaning we have this massive corner on the side of the building. In all honestly we could fit the entire tour group on our balcony.

Massive Balcony

Once the whole view fuss was over we realized who our neighbors were! OMG Good Old and Ron. We have to be careful as we usually spend half the night laughing our heads off about them. Since they are next door they would hear us laughing at them.

Good Old Xcited about the views

We started a random conversation with the Good Olds when Good Old insisted we climb over into her apartment to see their room. This is because we complain about how our room was set out. So Lucy and I didn’t think twice and climbed into her room. Good old gave us a tour of the room before climbing over to our room to compare. Ron refused to climb so I had to open the front door for him. Honestly the things I have to do.

Once the room hopping was over we pick up our suitcases that were delivered outside our room. We didn’t even hear them coming. It’s probably because Lucy was screaming her head off about the view. We grabbed a quick shower before heading downstairs for our included dinner.

We chose a table near the window to enjoy our views while having dinner and we had Diane and Will join us. Now I have to say it’s the first couple on the tour group that I probably can’t bag out. Both Diane and Will were lovely people. Not that I’m saying Good Old and Ron wasn’t. They’re simple insane and on the same wavelength as us where as Diane and Will are more laid backed and semi normal. Ok I give up; I don’t know what I’m on about.

ABOVE: View from our dinner table

BELOW: Yummy Pasta

Our dinner arrives and we enjoy a lovely meal, with a lovely view with lovely people. Once dinner was over Lucy and I decide to stroll around the hotel to take outside shots of the hotel, private beach, pool and surroundings. Once we are satisfied with our photo shoot we head back to the room to open another bottle of wine. I swear we have become alcohols. We are doing a bottle or more a night.

Above - Our Private Beach

We sat on the balcony drinking our wine enjoying the view and of course our neighbors.

Perfect Italian Setting

We started a random chit chat with the Good Olds and offered them wine. Ron refused and Good Old stated she better not drink as she gets drunk quickly. This of course encouraged us to insist and she gave in. Good Old decided to go get a glass from the room when she tried opening a sliding door that was already open. Ok if she’s like this sober can you imagine her drunk?

Nightview from Balcony

We chatted for a while and covered various topics. Good Old was tipsy from half a glass of red wine. Ron decided to volunteer some information to us. Ron’s a teacher as I mentioned previously in the US. Apparently he rocked up to class one day and spent the entire day with his fly undone and no one told him. Hence he decided to use this to test students. I can’t remember why but the thought of his fly being undone scares me. Oh wait I think it was to test who had courage to tell him…

Meanwhile Lucy started screaming about a spider on the wall. Infact it scared the shit out of me too. It wasn’t a big spider but no spider is good news. Lucy got paranoid and raced inside to grab something to kill it. Next thing you know she storms out with my deodorant and sprays half the bottle onto it. I think we drugged it for the time being but now I’m out of deodorant FFS. I love it how she doesn’t use hers and uses mine! Inconsiderate people!

We decided to crash into bed as we had our optional excursion to Lake Como tomorrow. Were lying in bed when I start moaning Christine and Lucy decides to start moaning Susan. It’s a moaning song with Christine and Susan. God we have issues. Of course a laughing fit breaks out. Let’s hope the Good Old’s didn’t hear us moan. Eventually we pass out from the moaning…