June 21, 2008
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Via Regina 101 - Laglio
 From the sleepy town of Laglio, where George Clooney previously bought his lake-side villa, you can easily reach the motorway to Milan and all airports. Moving north from Como, following the lower water-side road ‘Via Vecchia Regina' passing Argegno and Menaggio, you will arrive in front of a romantic, beautiful restaurant with lake view terraces. The restaurant is open during the summer months serving a tasty lunch or dinner to welcome guests. For those who are interested, the restaurant offers a new idea to ‘dinner with friends'; why not hire "your own chef at your home" to prepare exactly what you fancy eating!
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Via Statale 14 - Sala Comacina
 In a tranquil, picturesque setting on Comacina island, restaurant La Comacina faces the panoramic " terrazza a lago". Recently renovated with a friendly atmosphere and a visible kitchen where everyone can catch a glimpse of the chef at work. Serving typical delicious plates of the region, the chef with satisfy your every need. The dining room can host up to 70 people with the terrace seating around 30. Its possible to organise work dinners, themed evenings, weddings and confirmations.
For reservations telephone: 0344 55035 |
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Piazza San Rocco 8 - Como
 Since 1998, restaurant Namaste has been serving up authentic and unique Indian delights. Offering selected Indian specialities, prepared in the traditional manor, using herbs and spices imported directly from India. Each plate served has been created with attention to detail using typical Indian customs. There is also a vegetarian menu. The restaurant has been recommended by the Red Michelin Guide. It also has a take-away service. For resevations 031.261642 |
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Via carso 10 - Como
This pleasant friendly restaurant situated just outside Como city in an suburb called "Como Sole" is a perfect place to spend a romantic, peaceful evening with friends and loved ones. A place where you can be sure to appreciate delicious and tasty italian pizzas. Make your booking at 031.302748
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Via Borgovico 107 - Como
This cosy and welcoming little local uses peaceful tones and tranquil music, creating a calming, relaxing atmosphere. Here its possible to eat well, sip decent wine, listen to good music and chat the night away.
For reservations telephone: 0039. 031.576088 |
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Cernobbio
 Our restaurant, with its specialities and the impecable service which it offers to its guests. Enjoy a beautiful view of the lake...
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Como
 Passion and quality will offer you a wonderful meal. Would you like some fresh fish? This is the right place!
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Cernobbio
 Characteristic place where you can taste specialities of Lake Como with great wines. 30 seats open air.
Little wine shops.
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Trattoria Cacciatore
Brunate
 Small restaurant where simple food becomes a speciality! For a casual dinner with friends. Reachable by funicular from Como
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Verceia
 A restaurant nearby a beautiful garden, where rocks, stones and wood are important elements with water that flows softly, giving you a charmant awesomeness.
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Como
 The room is spacious and refined, in a style just as traditional and alluring as that of the cuisine. For the summer, an ample veranda, the rightful source of pride of the Villa, enables lunch and dinner to be enjoyed in a very pleasant cool atmosphere
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Ristorante Sant'Anna 1907
Como
Maitre Gabriele Vitelli and chef Enrico Bernasconi are delighted to welcome you to Ristorante Sant'Anna 1907, an ideal venue for having a pleasant time while enjoying genuine and refined dishes. The culinary style, which combines the tradition of italian cuisine with original and avant-garde options, perfectly blends with the rooms' elegant and refined ambience. Sant'Anna 1907 : for special and unforgettable moments.
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The Winds
 Since the Lake lies in a basin and is surrounded by ranges of mountains separated by several valleys sloping down towards its shores, there always are drafts and the expanse of water is often subjected to abrupt changes. Sailing on the Lake is no mean feat and might be something of a surprise. When all is relatively still, it may happen that, all of a sudden, a strong wind starts blowing and the water gets rough and stormy; similarly, while sailing fast and with a good wind, you may well suddenly come to a halt and stand almost still in the middle of the Lake for hours. Because of its fickle winds, Lake Como is an ecellent training ground for sailing. As a matter of fact, there are quite a number of sailing schools and clubs all along the shores. During the sailing season, many local and international races take place, especially on the Lecco branch.
Here there is a list of the most important winds blowing on the lake and their characteristics:
Northerly: Tivano. It is a recurrent and uniform wind blowing from north-east, in the early morning hours, from 6 am to 10 am, all year round. It can reach speeds of up to 5 m/sec. It blows from a valley called “Valtellina” and its absence forebodes bad weather.
Southerly: Breva. This wind blows from the south when Tivano starts dropping; it is seldom strong, but lasts long; it blows from 10 am to 6 pm Speed: 7-8 m/sec.
These two winds clear up the sky over Lake Como. The next winds in this list are harbingers of bad weather; they can be very strong.
Northerly: Vento or Ventone. It blows from Val Chiavenna and may start unexpectedly, any time of the day. Generally it blows for 3 to 7 days, in strong gusts ranging from 40 to 60 kms/h.
Southerly: Menaggino. It blows in strong gusts from val Menaggio and is quite fearsome during thunderstorms, particularly in summertime.
Bellasco: blows from Val Muggiasca, right over Bellano.
Argegnino: blows in strong gusts from Val d'Intelvi.
Bergamasca: blows all along the Lecco branch up to the middle of the Lake, where its strength and violence start dropping.
Garzeno: blows from the valley ovelooking Dongo.
These are summertime winds that blow particularly during thunderstorms and can be quite dangerous. They usually blow in the evening hours.Ports
Several docks and berths are scattered all along the Lake shores. You can sometimes find well-equipped ports, but most of them, are in bad conditions because of shallow waters and of the precariousness of their wharves. For small sail and motorboats, good berths and beaches can be found near camping grounds, which are mostly located in the northern part of the lake.
These areas indicated and described in the maps only when they can easily be approached either through a beach or a wharf.
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 GAL dei Due Laghi, with the collaboration of the public institutions and the operators of the tourist system of Como and Lecco together have produced the COMOLAKE card with the purpose to improve the knowledge of Lake Como region.
Comolake Card aims to make your holiday unforgettable, allowing you to discover beyond the well-known coast resorts, into the valleys, the villages, and the less-known regions. These areas remain untouched, where excellence and passion blend together in a unique place that we would like to share with you, offering you the key that opens the door.
The Comolake Card price is 3,00 euro
You can have it free if you partake in Project Pista test (Home Page)
You can collect your own free Comolake card at:
Ufficio Turistico di Domaso
Via Garibaldi, 81
22013 Domaso (CO)
Tel. 0344 96322
Timetable:
From 16th to 28th May and from June 1ft to 10th: 10.00-12.30 / 15.30-19.00
From 20th June to September 9th: 10.00-12.30 / 16.00-19.00
Ufficio turistico di Gravedona
Piazza Trieste
22015 Gravedona (CO)
Tel 0344 85005
Timetable:
From May To September: 9.30-12.30 / 15.00-18.00
Colese: Monday
Ufficio Turistico di Tremezzo
Via Regina, 3
22019 Tremezzo (CO)
Tel. 0344 40493
Timetablei:
All days from April 1ft to October 31th: 9.00-12.00 / 15.30-18.30
Ufficio Informazioni Vivi Porlezza
Via Ceresio, 2
22018 Porlezza (CO)
Tel. 0344 62261
Orari:
All days: 10.00-13.00 / 15.00-18.00
Close: Monday
You can buy your own Comolake card at:
Ufficio Turistico Pro Bellano
Via Stoppani (c/o Palazzo Municipale)
23822 Bellano (LC)
Tel. 0341 820044
Timetable:
April, May and September: Saturday e Sunday 10.00-12.00 / 15.00-18.00
June, Julay e Agoust: Sunday Saturday Monday 10.00-12.00; other days 10.00-12.00 / 15.00-18.00
Undersound Music Shop & Videonoleggio
Via Ippolito Manzoni, 2
23816 Barzio (LC)
Tel. 0341 910 742
www.under-sound.it
Timetable:
Monday: 15.30-19.30
Other days: 9.30-12.30 / 15.00-19.30
Close: Monday
EDICOLA CARTOLERIA
MONDINALLI ENRICA (news paper shop)
Via Case Sparse, 50
22013 Domaso (CO)
Orari: 7.00-12.30 / 14.30-19.30
Luglio e agosto: 7.00-19.30
Chiusura: domenica pomeriggio
TABACCHERIA “DA NEVIO”
SOUVENIRS E ARTICOLI DA REGALO
Piazza Cavour, 30
22100 Como (CO)
Orari: 7.30-23.00
How to use Comolake Card
The Comolake Card is a personal Card, no transferable and must carry on the back the name and the surname of the holder, written in block letters.
The Card gives you the right to benefit from discounts and promotions listed in the booklet (attached to the comolake card), on exhibition of a valid identity document.
All the discounts and the reductions will be granted to the card holder and the companion. The promotions granted by the card can not be added to other existing discounts.
Validity
The Comolake Card is valid for two years: from March 2007 to December 2008. Best wishes of enjoying your holiday
Posted on 06/21/2008 3:29 PM Comments (0)
April 28, 2008
28 April 2008
Political Press Release number 10
Right and Left do not exist. What exists is a business group. Italy is its business. Our taxes are its revenue. The media are its voice. Good and bad journalists do not exist. What exists is regime information. It’s only an issue of nuances between l'Unità and il Giornale, between Tg1 and Tg5. Journalists don’t exist. What exist are people who have the courage to display the truth and they become heroes, stars, citizens with bodyguards. People who write, speak and communicate exist. They are called men and women. What exists is the natural order of those who know how to read, to write, to speak and who use these abilities to describe the world. No one is a journalist. We are all journalists. On the internet we are all journalists. The newspapers and the TV are the past. V2 day has demonstrated that information is on the Internet. The film clips of the cities that participated in V2 day are on the Internet. Hundreds of witness statements of V2 day in Piazza San Carlo are on the Internet. The number of signatures collected in total for the three referenda is about 1,500,000. It has never happened in the history of the Republic in such a short time. For each referendum, 500,000 signatures are needed. For the whole month of May, the collection of signatures will continue with the signing tables. We need as big a number as possible to have a safety margin. In July 2008, Beppe Grillo will deliver the signatures to the Court of Cassation. Information in Italy can no longer be reformed. It has gone into metastasis in the Board of Directors of the banks and the industrial firms, in the press offices of the parties and the gentile salons. New information on the Internet needs creating. On 25 April the partisans of information came out into the streets. On 25 April even Asphalt Head came out with Ciarrapico. Guess who are the ones preferred by Topo Gigio, of the PD doc (whose origin is controlled) and their newspapers. We are all Don Peppone and we are all Don Camillo. You can’t rewrite history, but you can create the future, invent it. The truth is our future. Let’s keep the flame alight.
Example of journalism:
L'Unità after V2-day reports: "Piazza San Carlo cannot contain more than 40,000 people"
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L'Unità for 1 May 2007 in piazza San Carlo: "At least 100 thousand people"
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V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
1. Put your photos on www.flickr.com with the tag V2-day
2. Put your videos on www.youtube.com with the tag V2-day
3. Download the V2-day flyer
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April 25, 2008
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April 23, 2008
23 April 2008
Political Press Release number 9
In a few days, a single person will have control of 6 national TV channels. The seventh will be in franchising as it is now. The Voice of the People (called Asphalt Head) will be the future President of the Council. For the citizen it will change nothing. Information was of the regime before and it will be afterwards as well. But it’ll be in a homogeneous way, without posing embarrassing problems of subtle imperceptible comparison between the servant doc Fede and the servant dop Riotta. A single voice a multitude of ears. A guitar of Apicella at Porto Rotondo and a hundred servile journalists. A moon at Marechiaro and the statue of the Madonna in Milan. Montaneli and Biagi under a tombstone. The Italian is like a budgerigar in a cage. He’s frightened of liberty. He’s used to not knowing the truth about Borsellino’s death. About Italicus and about Piazza Fontana. About the G8 in Genoa and about incinerators. He wants to believe with all his might that the pluri-president of the Council Andreotti was absolved and not “prescritto” for mafia dealing. The TV Italian imagines a new Parliament made up of good people. Not of convicts and people on remand. Those who control information win. Those who suffer it, loose. A virtual world becomes reality, delinquents become senators and deputies. It’s all true, it’s all false. The one who shouts the loudest gets the cow. On 25 April we are liberated from nazi-fascism. 63 years later we can liberate ourselves from the fascism of information. It’s more difficult than it was then. It’s no longer rifle against rifle, hand grenade against armoured tank. The battle is between consciences that have gone to sleep and the freedom of thought, between those who no longer want to fly and those who cannot renounce the sky. On 25 April we can change the country. We have the duty to do it for our children and for our conscience. The liberty of information cannot offer discounts. Three referenda for freedom of information in a free state: abolition of Mussolini’s Order of Journalists, elimination of a billion euro a year public financing of publishing, abolition of the Gasparri law and the duopoly Parties-Mediaset (shortly to be Mediaset-Mediaset). In 400 Italian cities signatures will be collected. In tens of foreign cities there will be information about the control of the media in Italy. Music, bicycles, festivals and signs of peace. A new Renaissance. After so much shit, for Italy it is a duty. On 25 April, Beppe Grillo will be in Turin for a non-stop in Piazza San Carlo. From 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm. So many free voices will fill Turin with words of hope. Coraggio! PS In Genoa on 25 April, from 9:00 am till 11:00 pm in Piazza della Vittoria, V2 DAY will go on normally. The morning will be devoted to "Fronte del Porto" with speeches by workers and the projection of the documentary film: "De Ma". In the afternoon and evening apart from a live broadcast from Turin, there will be different speeches including: Marco Preve journalist with la Repubblica, Marco Menduni and Bruno Lugaro, journalists with Il Secolo XIX, Asia Ostertag a justice collaborator.
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April 22, 2008
View from Stephansdom
The Stephansdom (Cathedral of Saint Stephen), in Vienna, Austria, is the seat of a Roman Catholic Archbishop, a beloved symbol of Vienna, and the site of many important events in Austria's national life. The cathedral was first built as a parish church, in 1147, and rebuilt and enlarged over the centuries, with major new work concluding in 1511, although repair and restoration have continued from the beginning to the present day.
Random Vienna photos:
Schonbrunn Neptune fountain
Schonbrunn palace garden
Vienna subway
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Cafe Sacher Wien
Experience the typical Viennese coffee house atmosphere at Café Sacher Wien and treat yourself to an Original Sacher-Torte and an Original Sacher Café. The Café Sacher at the Hotel Sacher is a glamorous meeting point for tourists and lovers of Austrian pastries alike.
The Café Sacher is also home to the world’s most famous chocolate cake, the Original Sacher-Torte. The cake’s success spread the reputation of the Café Sacher far beyond the borders of Austria.
Until today, the recipe of the exquisite chocolate cake with a thin layer of apricot jam, dating from 1832, is a well-kept secret. All cakes are produced in Sacher’s in-house bakery.
Random Vienna photos:
Schonbrunn Palace
Stephansdom
Austrian Parliament building
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April 21, 2008
EINSTEIN’S APHORISMS
 
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
A.Einstein
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
A.Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
A.Einstein
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discovery and creativity
god
knowledge, truth and certainty
minds and mental matters
science and scientists
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April 20, 2008
19 April 2008
The towns involved on 25 April
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You are all Beppe Grillo. Use your brains. Take this Country in hand. It is your Country. Don’t abdicate from your rights. Information is a right. It has been taken away from you. That is why we are this state. Only through freedom of information will Italy once again become the free, beautiful and splendid Country that it was during the Renaissance. I believe this and so should you.
The 25th April is an opportunity for us to tell the parties, the banks, Confindustria and Tar-head that, in Italy, it is the citizens that call the shots. That information must serve the interests of democracy, not those of the people in power. The parties have never introduced a law banning conflicts of interest. Ask yourself why this is. For love and charity? Or perhaps because if there were to be true freedom of information, ALL, and I mean ALL of them would all have disappeared the very next day to avoid having the Italians giving them a kicking up the arse.
Up with the heart. On 25 April, signatures will be collected in 400 Italian towns to back up a call for a number of referendums to be held regarding calling for freedom of information in a free State. No to the corporate order of journalists, to the public financing of the press to the tune of one billion Euro a year, to the Gasparri Law concerning radio and television broadcasting. 400 Towns full of music, information and young and old people getting together for a day of celebration. Take one of the red pills on 25 April. Look for your town on the list.
Abano Terme, Abbiategrasso, Acerra, Acqui Terme, Agordo, Alassio, Alba, Alba, Alba Adriatica, Alba Adriatica, Albano Laziale, Albenga, Albenga, Alessandria, Alghero, Alghero, Alife, Altamura, Altavilla Silentina, Ancona, Andria, Andria, Andria, Angri, Aosta, Apricena, Arese, Arezzo, Ariano Irpino, Ariccia, Arona, Arzano, Arzignano, Ascoli Piceno, Ascoli Piceno, Asti, Atri, Augusta, Augusta, Avellino, Aversa, Bacoli, Bagnacavallo, Bari, Bari, Bari, Bari, Bari, Barletta, Barletta, Barletta, Bassano del Grappa, Battipaglia, Belluno, Belpasso, Benevento, Bergamo, Bergamo, Biella, Binasco, Bisceglie, Bisignano, Bitonto, Bojano, Bologna, Bologna, Bolzano, Borgo San Lorenzo, Bosa, Bra, Bracciano, Brescia, Brindisi, Broni, Busto Arsizio, Cadoneghe, Cagliari, Cagliari, Caltanissetta, Cameri, Campobasso, Canosa di Puglia, Capaccio, Carate Brianza, Carbonia, Carini, Carloforte, Carpi, Carrara, Carrara, Casale Monferrato, Casalnuovo di Napoli, Caserta, Casoli, Cassano allo Ionio, Cassino, Castelbelforte, Castelfidardo, Castelfranco Veneto, Castellammare di Stabia, Castellana, Castelnovo ne' Monti, Castelvetrano, Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea, Castrovillari, Catania, Catanzaro, Cattolica, Cava de' Tirreni, Ceglie Messapica, Cerda, Cerignola, Cervignano del Friuli, Cesena, Chiavari, Chieri, Chieti, Chioggia, Cisternino, Città di Castello, Cividale del Friuli, Civita Castellana, Civitanova Marche, Civitanova Marche, Codroipo, Como, Conversano, Cosenza, Creazzo, Crema, Cremona, Crotone, Cuneo, Cuneo, Cuneo, Cutro, Cutro, Diano Marina, Domodossola, Dueville, Eboli, Empoli, Enna, Fabriano, Faenza, Fagnano Castello, Fano, Feltre, Ferrara, Ferrara, Firenze, Fisciano, Fisciano, Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Fiumicino, Fiumicino, Fiumicino, Foggia, Foligno, Foligno, Follonica, Forlì, Formia, Fossombrone, Gallarate, Galliate, Gattatico, Gela, Genova, Genova, Genova, Genova, Genova, Genova, Giugliano in Campania, Giulianova, |
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