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As requested a weather/trip report!
We were going to Lake Garda, but as we've been before a few times, and we've also done lakes Como, Maggiore and Orta, thought we'd try somewhere different!
Sprung for Lago di Piano, a small lake between Lake Lugano and Como, about a 4hr drive from Serre Chevalier with our caravan and 4 dogs!
Great site and well wooded for shade and privacy right on the shore of the lake.
Very warm and due to get hotter, 32 degrees by the weekend!
Pretty much the same for the other lakes.
Next week looking good with a couple of showers to clear the mugginess!
A lone windsurfer on Lake Lugano on the Italian tip of the lake, notice the colour of the sky, it should be blue, sunny, not a cloud visible, it's the smog fallout from Canada's bushfires........
The town of Porlezza 2 minutes from our campsite equidistant from Switzerland and Lake Como, better light this way as the sun was behind me:
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well done @KenX,
Enjoy summer while its here.
I see the dogs are patiently waiting for their dinner.
Italy such a beautiful country.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Beautiful! (Despite the cloudy weather)
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@DrLawn, well spotted!!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Shame about the fallout. 32⁰ is going to be a bit warm for the dogs.
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@adithorp, they seem fine, definitely no leaving them in the car and the caravan is shaded!
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It's what lakes are for.
This was 10 months old and only the second time he'd been swimming.
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@adithorp, he's got a great launch!!!
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Had lunch in Lugano today, pleasantly surprised cost-wise, 85 chf for 2 pizzas, drinks, ice cream and coffees, was thinking it would be a lot more being Switzerland!
Lovely town/city, very clean, a bit like upmarket Italy 
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@KenX, that's 91 euros !
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| KenX wrote: |
| @adithorp, he's got a great launch!!! |
From a standing start too! He needs to work on the landing
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Tue 10-06-25 18:27; edited 1 time in total
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@KenX, we take a train down to Lugano to eat there when we get bored of winter grey in Zurich. I also think its better value than most other parts of CH. its like a clean & functional italy
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@davidof, probably about 70 euros in Serre Che so didn’t reckon it to be so bad for CH
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You know it makes sense.
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@KenX, didn't you get a bottle of Montepulciano thrown in ?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@davidof, 
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Poster: A snowHead
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@KenX, we've certainly had bad pollution in the Rhone-Alpes the last days, our Dyson was going mad with it all
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@davidof, Yes I drove down on Wednesday and was quite stunned.
As it was summer I opted for going Chambery, Maurienne, Galibier rather than Grenoble and the pollution haze was much better in the Maurienne and twas stunning going over the Galibier in the evening Sunshine.
And then cycled Galibier yesterday in beautiful conditions.
Temps were 32° in the afternoon and Ullr (Jacks are in the UK) certainly doesn't like that.
I'm back down to Lac Serre Poncon Saturday with all my toys, hence no room for the OH
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It’s muggy at Lake Maggiore too. The lake view is disappointing as a result.
Going to lake Company next
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Going to lake Company next |
Autocorrect for lake Como? 
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| abc wrote: |
Going to lake Company next |
Autocorrect for lake Como? |
Yeahhh.
Pretty annoying lately. Whatever happened to the old practice of not spell check words that are capitalized, never mind auto-correct.
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We regularly pass Piano on the way to the Iperal just outside Porlezza from our house in Menaggio, to be honest I've had stopped there but should to have a walk around.
Is there a walk which goes all the way around?
Where are you camping on Como?
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@homers double, we were camping at Camping Ranocchio on Piano itself, they're in the process of finishing a track all the way round, it doesn't follow the lake borders sadly but will be very nice when finished!
LynnX spoke highly of the Iperal
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