More on Arese museum

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 02/03/2002 6:31:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> No air conditioned and also the warming system is a
> '60s warning system, I suggest you to visit it in May
> or in September.
> 
From personal experience, if you go on a rainy day, bring an umbrella because 
the roof, like a spider's, leaks very badly and there will be buckets and 
garbage can all around catching the water coming in, plus a few slippery 
spots on the floor.  This is not an ancient building, it is a modern 70s-era 
building but the roof leaves something to be desired.  The display is 
terrific, though, and the people are great, and you can even see the stove 
and the snakeskin Alfa so what's to complain?!

Another though about a place to stay if you don't have a car and if you're 
not interested in Milano is someplace on the south end of Lake Como, which is 
very beautiful and has great food... and is really not much farther away than 
Milano itself from Arese.  The city of Como is not that beautiful but it has 
everything (food, places to stay) and is the heart of the silk industry, if 
you or your companion is into that.  A few clicks further north is the Villa 
d'Este which is a great place to stay if you are on someone else's money, and 
5 minutes further on from there (Cernobbio) is the beautiful village of 
Moltrasio and Ralph Morehouse and I can attest the Hotel Restaurant Posta, 
directly across the street from the ferry dock, is a comfortable and modest 
old-fashioned place a little more like Switzerland than Italy.  It is chilly 
there in September but the people are warm.

Charlie
LA, CA, USA

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