We arrived at Villa Pozzo D'Anone on the shores of Lake Maggiore on Saturday night. Quite a lovely lake and a lovely Villa. We quickly discovered that there were only a handful of guests at the villa as it is not yet high season for Italian vacations. As such, the restaurant was not yet open and other amenities were a bit scarce. Fortunately, the owners decided to upgrade us to a suite and offered to serve us breakfast in the room (normally an extra charge). So the negatives (restaurant and fitness facility closed) were more than made up for by the positives (suite upgrade, breakfast in room). The day we arrived it had been stormy so the first night was a bit damp and chilly. Fortunately the weather started to clear up on Sunday (partial clouds) and by Monday it was great (blue sky, twenty-five degrees). We had the best value for money dinner so far of the trip on Saturday; Ctos had an excellent fish soup (really a mussels, clams, crawfish and shrimp soup) as well as a good pasta while Lisa had a yummy piedmontese ravioli. Our first full day was spent touring about; driving to the top of Mottarone (a ski slope in winter; see picture) and visiting the shores of lovely Lake Orta. On Monday we discovered we were the only guests, the rest having been here for the weekend alone. We spent Monday relaxing and reading in the sun.
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