Lake Maggiore Thursday 10th

Today was a traveling day. We haven't had time to update the blog for a couple of days as the days have been full on.Up at 5:45 am and going through to 10pm. Today we left Florence at 8:00 am and headed West to Pisa. The building is just amazing, to think that it leans 12feet off perpendicular is astounding. Everybody was taking photos of others trying to "push" the building upright, we did too! While we were there, there was a Lamborghini Rally. Must have been over 200 cars driving around the town showing off. Also amazing are the street vendors trying to flog their wares, I don't know how they make a living, there are so many of them selling mostly the same sort of tourist things.
Leaving Pisa it was North West along the Ligurian Coast. This road consists of tunnels and viaducts, the landscape is all hills and valleys, there is no other way but to build bridges or tunnels, must have cost a fortune. Lunch was had at a roadside Autogrill, similar to our roadhouses but much better. The food is quite good and not Maccas or the like.
Passing by Genoa, we headed north and finished up at Baveno on Lake Maggiore. The hotel is very nice and after we settled in we were off again for a cruise on the lake to Isola Bella, which is a palace built on  an island in the lake. It was built by the Borromeo family, centuries ago. It is very ornate and has a lovely garden. Back to the hotel where we had dinner. The weather was fine today, warm at times and cloudy but not wet.
We are enjoying the food, did I say we like Chianti? Did I say we like Gelato? The pasta and Pizzas are very good too!