Integral,
You must have looked across the lake right at Tremezzo and my hotel on the lake front.
I think not, because my villa was on the shore of the other (west?) side of the peninsula (opposite side of where the ferry landing is) with my window looking ENE or E. IIRC, the ferry landing is on the east side of the peninsula with the Grande Hotel immediately north of the ferry landing. My view was looking east (and a bit north) across a wide arm of the lake with the hill behind me and even the main lodge/villa building at the top of the hill looks mostly ENE.
I suspect your hotel was on the west side of the lake, which is the side our minibus drove up to the westside ferry landing. Once I got the ferry over to Bellagio, I had to walk with all my luggage up all those steps until I got to the gate of the Villa Serbelloni, at which point there was a phone box that I called to summon the white van to come pick me up and drive me up the hill to the main villa, then down the other side to my villa on the east coast of the peninsula.
This sucked because (1) I had influenza that started on the plane flight to Milan and felt like crap, (2) I had just bought a large suitcase-style set of high-end hand-crafted wooden building blocks in Milan as a present for my 2 year-old son and had to carry that 20 lb set in addition to my luggage up all those damned steps while suffering from the flu and with no free hand to wipe my profusely running nose.
More info than needed, I know, but these types of things are what makes those memories so memorable - the things that go wrong, the immense joy at finally reaching the gate and phonebox after all those steps.
Seems like the most memorable trips are those when things were not according to plan or unexpected problems arise.
Like on our honeymoon when I locked our car keys in the rental car at the ferry landing in Twassen, B.C. while waiting to catch the ferry to Victoria, Vancouver Island (we went inside the cafe to get coffee and hot chocolate) - and the locksmith got there JUST IN TIME to open the door and get my credit card info before the ferry left.
Kinda like when you run across a novel, truly outrageous pennystock promotion ploy or rig method - those are the memorable ones.
I think the fake business address put out by SKTO in a PR and then "updated" to a new fake address may be one of the more memorable bumbles of 2013.
At every yearend, this board should do a rundown of the top 10 most outrageous or novel penny stock bumbles/scams of the year.
