La dolce vita ... (#3)

One day at sea, one day in the mountains, that is real life !

And the mountain trip was then directed to Mont Mottarone. First stage, reaching the cable car. The easy way would have been to use a taxi boat, but we finally ended up walking in the countryside and getting lost, but always with seaview ...

Once close to Stresa, back to the harbour:

And straight away, after the first cable car, some hundreds meters above:

But actually this was only half the way up ... One hour later:

Ready to go down ! ... or up :-)

A nice mountain hut, that we would have loved to visit for a night under the stars ...

... and still trying to catch the lake, hidden by Italian heat :-)

More than one thousand meters to go down, ... that took quite a while. But it didn't matter, as the cool spumante, the shadow balcony and cheese bits were waiting for us ...