N and R were in Como, and then Milan, but are now in Paris

We've reached the final leg of our trip, a one month stay in Paris. I'm not sure how two months passed so quickly. At any rate, we spent a couple days on Lake Como in the resort town of Bellagio (I've never seen so many asten martins, rolls royces, and mazeratis) before driving to our final italian stop, Milan.

On the last day in Bellagio, we had drinks at a lake front cafe, which looked like this:

We also took a boat ride (basically public transportation connecting all the lake villages) from Bellagio to Como and back. The boat ride was great, the views amazing, and we even stopped at Tremezzo, made famous by George Clooney who apparently lives there. The boat ride looked like this:

N and R in Lake Como also looked like this:

Next we drove 1.5 hours south to Milan, where we returned the rental car. We were there during Milan's Fashion week, which is such a big deal that we actually could not even find a hotel in town, but stayed in the suburbs. While we didnt see anyone famous, we did see several tall skinny model type people followed by camera crews walking around. Milan was full of people who looked like they were out of magazine adds, even more so than New York or Paris. It was pretty interesting to see. As a big city, there's alot to do in Milan, and we didn't have time for too much in the one afternoon we spent there, as the following day we were heading out for Paris on a 6AM train. In any case, the duomo there is incredible, and when N and R stand in front of it, they look like this:

Finally, at 430AM on saturday, we awoke, and took a taxi to the Milan train station, where we boarded a train that took us from Milan to Paris over seven hours of amazing scenery. The train passed through the italian and then french alps (picturesque lakes and snow capped mountains out the wazoo) before passing through some of the most breathtaking countryside i've ever seen. In the final two hours of the trip, passing through central france, we saw fields of patchworked green and yellow stretching off into the distance, the yellow being rapeseed flowers (used to make canola oil). The flowers were so bright yellow and so vast in their presence that it was a really amazing sight. and of course, i didn't take any pictures. Driving through Chianti and the rest of tuscany a month ago i thought italy had the better countryside, but this train ride reminded my that the french countryside, which is much underrated, is actually even more picturesque.

To conclude, we've safely arrived in Paris, have been here for two days, and I will post soon about our early adventures in this city.