Ah, our food dreams come true. We have left the land of Germanic cooking. No more goulash, schnitzel or brown gravied meats for awhile. Woo!
Stresa is nice quiet, even though touristy, Italian village on Lake Maggiore, just across the Swiss border, with the Alps showing in the background. We stayed put for three nights and got some laundry done and dodged the raindrops. The area is super picturesque, but we didn’t really get a glimpse of it until the last day. This ended up being a relaxing stop and we found some good Italian food, complete with pizza, pasta with ragu, and had time to sample wines from the region at one of the new snazzy wine bistros in the town.
Not much is happening in this town, so maybe it is the small things that make your day. Take for instance the laundromat had a new feature that we hadn’t seen before. The washer dispensed soap automatically, so the cost of washing your clothes included the soap. This made for one of the cleanest public washers that we’ve seen. No powdered soap sticking all over the place. You could even use some sort of rechargeable smartcard dongle to avoid having to find the right change. All in all, quite a dignified laundromat.
And did I mention that grilled fish in butter sage sauce is a specialty of Stresa? Nope, not a dumpling in sight…
