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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Get Out Of Town With Excursions


Today let's talk about getting out of Stresa. 

If you're staying in Stresa for more than just a few days, or, if this isn't your first visit, it's time to start using Stresa as your base for some excursions to other places. It's remarkable how many places can be easily visited from Stresa on day trips. Well-known places such as Venice, Pisa, Cinque Terre, the Matterhorn. There are several well-known, well-respected tour companies in or near Stresa offering a wonderful selection of day trips such as these. The advantages are letting someone else do the driving, a bit of guided information, pre-purchased admissions, and sometimes included interesting meals. 

Here are three local companies that are reliable, have been in business many years, and have much experience with bus excursions to nearby interesting sites. Each offers a large variety of tours; often tours to a certain location are offered only one day a week; therefore, using different companies gives you more options to find the tours which work for you.
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Motonave Auto Ferry Between Verbania (Intra) And Laveno



While waiting for a boat back to Stresa from Verbania Intra one day, we noticed an interesting looking boat at the pier adjacent to ours. It docked slowly, and then, car after car after car began driving off and away into Verbania. This was the first time I had seen the Motonave Sempione, one of the car ferries that connects Intra Verbania in Piemonte with Laveno, across on the Lombardia side of the lake. 
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Parking A Car In Stresa




Traveling with a car has its advantages, but parking the car in Stresa can't be said to be one of them. Stresa is a small city of about 5,000 inhabitants, but the population in summer swells to more than 20,000. Stresa is bordered on one side by a lake, on the other by mountains, and in between it is composed of ancient, narrow, often one-way stone streets. Empty, flat land for parking is scarce, and especially enough parking for heavy summer or weekend traffic. Nevertheless, Stresa has managed to create several parking areas dispersed around the town. Following is some parking information that may be helpful.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Seen In Stresa: Hydrangeas


It's that time of summer again ... the hydrangeas are in full bloom. They are everywhere... In every imaginable hydrangea color and some never imagined.


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