I think I understand what he wants to say, but cannot figure out the sentence structure or I just don't know such a phrasal verb.
"I thought of the Lake Como what I had thought of Lugano."
I think I understand what he wants to say, but cannot figure out the sentence structure or I just don't know such a phrasal verb.
"I thought of the Lake Como what I had thought of Lugano."
The sentence you write means "I thought of Lake Como that which I had thought of Lugano." Follow the link to find out about cleft sentences.
To figure it out, substitute "I thought of the Lake Como" with "this was". E.g;
This was what I had thought of Lugano
There is a kind of comparison between the lakes.
One meaning of the phrasal verb to think of is to have an opinion about. So the sentence you quote means: I had the same opinion about Lake Como as I did about Lugano. The next sentence follows the same structure: