Serendipity

:the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for

It's a lot easier if one is ignorant. If I had read about Stresa, I'd probably have sneered and claimed it was full of a certain kind of person, which, really, it is. And I don't think I would have come. But, in ignorance I came and liked it a lot. It's expensive and snobby, loud and vain, boorish and rude, but beautiful and warm, magnificent and breathtaking, aged and proven.