80. A Month by the Lake. Varenna Part 2

We are in Varenna for the day - on the east side of Lake Como.  

Varenna is a small, rich village.  I would imagine the tourist season lasts about 8 or 9 months here, raking in the money - nothing is cheap.  The ferries run all year, every hour, cars and passengers, connecting every village on the lake.  Every square metre of buildable land is built on. Like everywhere in Europe, most houses have common walls, for stability and warmth.  Most buidlings are three or four stories and all of those that face the public foot road (not car road) have commercial property on the ground floor.  

So lets walk around the cliff face.

The boat harbour - where we had coffee.

Shops along the boat harbour.

The flower covered foot path, edged with red railings.

At this point the path curves around the corner of the cliff.  Looking back towards the village centre ......

..... looking forward towards the ferry dock.  That four story yellow hotel is where we stayed in summer 2004 when a wild storm careered down the valley and engulfed the lake.

Here is the square next to the hotel, where cars queue for the ferry.

Cars waiting for the ferry - including an old Bentley.

And on the ferry, guess whose little Peugot is wedged in next to the Bentley?

Farewell to Varenna.  The tall white pillars of the ferry port are on the left. The church tower and the village are on the right with the mountain at the rear.  The walk along the cliff connects them at water level.

And back to Managgio on "our" side of Lake Como.  

We need to drive through the valley between these mountains to get back to Lake Lugano, and "home".