So Mike decided to take me to Santa Caterina de Sasso after my rather interesting exerience in Milan. The place was just amazing but I will NEVER ever want to be a passenger in a car travelling on the road that follows the lake. Lake Maggiore that is. To put it in perspective, imagine great ocean road, divide the width of the road by 2, add more bends add some great big trees and shrubs around the bend so you cant see whats infront of you, then add great big hills that has signs of fallen rocks but no guard or protection. To make it worst, people don't quite stay in their line when driving and whats even hillarious was the size of the humungous Buses they use in Italy, I mean they are wider and bigger than Trucks! Guess what, those buses also travel on that same road! I cringe at every bend Mike took with the small Yaris, luckily it's only a rental car with 50 Euro excess! Oh did I mention that there were no clearance on each side on the road, so everytime Mike pulls to the right side I expect the right view mirror to give way and shatters to pieces with shrapnel flying everywhere! After that experience, any man and his dog would be able to handle streets in Asia.
We stopped at a corner lookout between Santa Caterina and Luino, such a beautiful lake, people actually parked on the side of the road, sun tanned and pull out their best picnic gears like its their own private beach spot. Trully amazing lake! You can see the Swiss hills and alps from the lake, some of these hills interlap almost like the view you see in the movie Lord of the Ring.
The we head up to Luino, the view gets even better. We had dinner in one of the pizzeria there, ordered antipasto, cheese platter, taggliateli for myself, raviolli for Mike. I enjoyed every bit of the pasta, it was amazing. We had a bit of chuckle as the restaurant menu is encased with XXXX Australian beer cover! Who would have expected? I wonder if the pizzeria is owned by an expat.
On the way back, I pleaded Mike to drive on an inland road and he did. Thank God, I have never been that nervous in my life!
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