Menaggio - Lake Como

Ahhhh, free internet. So far, every time we're in a tourist information place they charge the most ridiculous prices, but this place offers 30 minutes free for all visitors and I am using it. We had a great time in Cinque Terre. Did the hike on our first day there in about the recommended time. Went swimming in the ocean, not at the beach but at a place where you can jump in off the rocks and just swim, or float and I loved it. I miss the ocean, and here (no matter what silly Americans say) it is warmer then at home because the top is heated by the really warm sun...
The hostel we were at was pretty cool because it was more like apartments with a bunch of beds in them so we were in a five bed room and there was also a two bed room and we all shared a common area and a kitchen. Basically, Cinque Terre is about the hikes and there really isn't much to do at night except watch the sunset so we would all hang out together and we met some guys, Chris and John, from Philly, and Andrew from Sydney, Australia who were in our room with us the first night and then the Americans left and some girls, Mia and Estrid, from Denmark joined us and some guys from Melbourne, Australia, were in the other room and we think that their names were Al and Time (or something like that) and you single ladies would definitely have been fans of Al...
Our second day there, by the way, we didn't go anywhere until noon and then we kind of just found something to eat in one town and I went swimming again in another so it was a pretty chill day.
The travelling to get to Lake Como was quite the day since we tried to get a train to Genova, but the train we wanted to catch didn't go far enough so we backtracked to La Spezia and then caught a three hour train straight to Milan (after waiting for two hours) and then we ran for another train to Como - there were some late-twenties, swiss guys in the cabin with us, but the better looking one had a ring - and then we had to get on a bus up to Menaggio. The bus was late to begin with, and then we caught stuck for half an hour behind an accident. A car had run into a motorcycle and while all the cars and bikes took turns passing by the accident, all the buses had to wait for the ambulance to get the motorcyclist and the police to move the vehicles before they could pass, maybe because it was on a bit of a corner, I'm not sure. Point is, we waited in the hot bus for an extra half hour.
There's some sort of motorcycle thing going on today which is pretty cool. Lots of old Motto Guzzi bikes parked out in the piazza with a bunch of old guys ooo-ing and ahh-ing. Took some photos. Sorry, by they way that there are no Italy photos yet but it is seriously more dificult to do here so those who are complaining will just have to wait.
Oh, and ELTON JOHN was fantastic as expected. He is such a cool old guy. Cool outfit, diamond initials in his purple tinted sunglasses... it was quite the show.
3 minutes left, gotta go again.