We are in Italy! We took a plane from Brussels to Milan, a train from Milan to Stresa, a boat from Stresa across Lake Maggiore, and a hike from the shore up 300m to our hillside apartment. A full day of all sorts of travel!
Our first couple days here have been astonishingly pleasant. We’ve walked the cool shadowed neighborhoods down by the lake.
We’ve discovered plants and crops and huge fecund garden plots along our steep one lane road. (Seriously, we have to put our feet sideways to not have our toes run over when a car passes.) (And seriously, these gardens are iiiiiiiinsane!)
But mostly we’ve beached it up!
And then in the afternoon we get gelato.
Pretty good living in Italy!
Magrilless 
That gelato is what’s insane!
Gelato Heaven! What incredible shape you are/will be in with all this scenic walking š
Don’t worry – we’re counteracting it with all the other indulgences š