Day 31 - Lake Como (it's not going to rain.... 5mins later .,. WHOOSH!!! )

Ok woke up at 7:30 (I think) ate breakfast and then made our way to the funicular where we were hoping to catch the 8:00 one. Sadly our map reading was inadequate and we had planed our route to go to the picture of the funicular not the little grey dot underneath it (on another street). Luckily mummy spotted out mistake before we got lost and we got the funicular in time for the 8:15 one. (A funicular for those who don't know is a little train thingy that goes up a very steep hill and is pulled up by a cable attached to a big wheel). The funicular was really cool and we looked backwards over Lake Como and got a really good perspective of the town. 

Once we arrived at the top we began today's walk which was to Volta's Lighthouse and back. The walk up was 1.5km and the walk down was 1.3km.... They should have been the same length but on the way up we accidentally followed the driving signs instead of the the walking signs and there were more twists and turns for the cars.

The lighthouse (well more of a monument than a lighthouse because it didn't light up) was really nice and the view was really very pretty we stayed up there for about 30 minutes before making out our way down. Just before we reached the bottom it began to rain so we took cover in a near by restaurant and bought 2 coffees and a hot chocolate. While we drank it start to properly pour and we stayed in the restaurant a while until it cleared. We then took the funicular back down and went and promenaded on the lake edge. After this we made our way home via the supermarket and had a rest for 3 hours. 

Once we were well fed and rested we decided to go on a big ride because dad had a look at the storm and said "oh they're going over us we'll be fine" low and behold 5 minutes later WHOOSH. It began to pour and thunder and lighting and very strong winds also appeared which changed directions ever 5 seconds . We sought cover and put on our rain jackets and amused ourselves while watching other people's umbrellas break and the owner of the umbrella get sodden. There was a particular corner near dad and I which was acting as a wind tunnel. As soon an someone walked passed it with an umbrella the umbrella (doesn't matter how good) flipped inside out and or broke. We saw a really really good umbrella with all it's rods hanging out completely broken. So yeah fun stuff. :P . Once the rain had finally slowed down enough (half an hour later)  we quickly rode home changed out clothes and spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing. 

I'm a bit tried. 

Alastair