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PREVIEW: This is a trip of two halves, and the contrast is the point. The first four nights are in Milan, Italy's capital of design and quiet ambition, where the Duomo rises like frost over a city that invented the aperitivo and still sets the pace for how the world dresses, furnishes, and eats. Then a one hour train north lifts you out of the city and onto Lake Como, where you settle for ten unhurried nights in Varenna, a slip of a village on the eastern shore, and let the ferries, the gardens, and the long lunches take over. Milan is for looking closely. The lake is for looking up.
PREVIEW: This is a trip of two halves, and the contrast is the point. The first four nights are in Milan, Italy's capital of design and quiet ambition, where the Duomo rises like frost over a city that invented the aperitivo and still sets the pace for how the world dresses, furnishes, and eats. Then a one hour train north lifts you out of the city and onto Lake Como, where you settle for ten unhurried nights in Varenna, a slip of a village on the eastern shore, and let the ferries, the gardens, and the long lunches take over. Milan is for looking closely. The lake is for looking up.