We had a fantastic week in Daniela’s apartment, which was as promised, absolutely stunning. Even though we were expecting the views to be amazing, they took our breath away. Watching the weather kept us pinned most evenings, particularly with a number of spectacular storms - never seen so much lightning! We were blessed with warm sunny weather in the daytime though, and breakfast on the balcony every morning was a real treat. Daniela was quick to respond to messages and queries and very helpful.
It was a great base for exploring the area, be it ferry hopping to the Borromean Islands and Stresa from Intra, or walking from the front door. There was a good 5 mile round up to Pizzo D’Omo behind the apartment on well signposted routes. A less well signed and more strenuous 7 mile round route took us down to Sacro Monte de Ghiffa. Both walks were through the beautiful cooling deciduous woodlands which cover all the mountains here.
A road trip to Locarno in Switzerland was very worthwhile: a beautiful town, with narrow streets, passages, squares and courtyards in the old part of the town, and a funicular and cable car up to the most phenomenal viewpoint at Cardada over the Alps where we could see Mount Rosa and even as far as Jungfrau and Mönch, some with snow patches still.
So to summarise: we’d highly recommend this apartment!