italy trip 3rd instalment
Menaggio was very quiet, especially at night, and we found it difficult to find anywhere to eat. So we ate at the hotel café, which provided regulation pasta and salad. Breakfast there was also typical of Italy so far—a croissant (or brioche, they call them) with some sugary coating—the ones without sugary coating are called ‘salade’ as far as I can discern, and are meant to contain ham and cheese—a glass of fresh orange juice, a pot of flavoured yoghurt, and either tea or coffee. We liked the café so much, though, we brought down our laptops and stayed there for an hour or so working on preparation for the Bologna seminars, the lake out one window, and the neck-straining snow-capped mountain out the other.
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- view from the cafe of the hotel du lac, menaggio
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