Places

The lake is not one place. It is three arms meeting at a promontory, two shores that face opposite directions and get their light at opposite ends of the day, a city at one foot of it and mountains closing the top. Villages a mile apart across the water live different days, keep different hours and empty at different rates when the season ends.

Writing filed under Places is about those differences and what they mean for somebody choosing where to be, rather than about what there is to see. It is comparative where a comparison is useful and specific where it can be.

For the practical business of where to stay and how to get here, the guides do that job. This is the part about character.