Lake Garda
Travel Blogs from Lake Garda, Italy
Largo di Garda
... beautiful memories of a once in a lifetime vacation. I grew up in a town south of Munich (Bavaria, Germany) and the distance to Lake Garda is only about 3.5 hours. So it is just natural that we had to take a drive every now and then to get ...
Lake Garda
... had planned to visit after hearing good things about it through fellow travellers and our Lonely Planet guidebook. The southern corner of Lake Garda is the exact opposite of what we look for in a camping location. Crowded, traffic, theme parks, ...
Provence & Cinque Terre
... Shelley set sail on his final fatal voyage. After another quiet day we set our bearings northwards to start the long drive back to the UK for June. We are now on Lake Garda, enjoying some hot sunshine in a lovely, peaceful site at ...
Sirmione and Lake Garda
Today we headed off to Sirmione, lake Garda from Como. Upon arrival at the hotel we got a few brochures to decide what we were going to do. After we decided what we were going to do we headed of to Sirmione town before going to Desenzano by boat where we ...
Bardolino
... on lake Garda As beautiful as can be. Monte Baldo Take the cable car to the top and grasp the real dimensions of Lake Garda, Italy's biggest lake! Generally Watch out for the "Ora" if you stay on the northern shores of the lake, this is a strong ...
Lake Garda
Riva is a remote little town surrounded by mountains on the northern tip of the great Lake Garda. Caught the boat from here to Limone, another lakeside town which centres around a gravity-defying citrus ...
Relaxing by the lake
Feeling a little worn out after a few day's sightseeing, we decide a relaxing stop-off by Lake Garda is just what we need. Its a short drive away and we find a pleasant campsite with a shop, beach and restaurant on-site, which means we can have a swim, ...
Via ferrate.
Four day trip to the north Italian Dolomite mountains. Weather mostly held out, although we did get a little bit of rain. Did two days of via ferrata climbing, grade 2 and grade 3. Riva 1 (CIMA SAT) and Rovereto 5C (five peaks) Closest carpark at: ...
Italian Dolomites
What a lovely part of the world!!! The mountains are high, the valleys are low and the macaronis talk a funny lingo. Speaking Englesies and using lots of hand gestures really helps. The next couple of days are via-ferrata reconnaissance days for next ...
Chillin out in Italy on lake Garda
... lake. Early that morning Bert and Ina had laid some towels on the rocks to save us all a place. We had a swim in Lake Garda, it was magnificent. The water temperature was perfecto and there was an unbelievable backdrop of mountains to look at. There is a ...
Arrivaderci Roma, Buon Giorno Desenzano
... feel after 3 days here. A fantastic hotel with friendly staff, good food, walking distance to the town centre and the lake. I sound like an advert but I can highly recommend this place for a family holiday. Forget Spain, this is miles better. We ...
Wake BoardingCamping with Kate & fam on Lake Garda
Wake the Lake - wake boarding on Lake Garda was great. Get out there by 8am to avoid the ferry traffic. ...
Cheers Grandad
... then head off and past Milan (can't see the San Siro from the autostrada but Inter Milan is playing Juventus there tonight) to Lake Garda. As a surprise to Nanna we have booked for two nights at the Hotel Flaminia in Sirmione where Dad had arranged to ...
Venice to Verona
... an early start to pick up their daughter at Milan early in the morning. We decided to have an early start to drive to Lake Garda this morning. It was lovely to see open spaces and lots of greenery - hills, grapevines and just beautiful views. ...
Camping at Lake Garda with Ina & Bert
3/8 We left our digs at the Hilton and headed to Lake Garda, Europe's biggest lake to camp with Bert & Ina family from Holland, who spend their summer holidays at the lake. To drive a full lap around the lake is 155 km of very windy roads. After ...
Lac de Garde
Un seul mot pour décrire la région nord milanaise du point de vue d'un cycliste (le mien en l'occurence): DEGUEULASSE!!!! Un truc de fou, déja c'est super moche, en plus il y a des routes dans tous les sens sauf dans celui qui m'intéressais. Elles ...
Picturesque
... , another swim and then time for a boat trip. The small boat picked us up at out terrace a 6pm for an hour and a half cruise of Lake Garda (which is 55km top to bottom so we didn't see all of it. We cruise across to near Garda and the two local Count's ...
Meeting up with old friends in Lake Garda
... it was a little confused as to where we were but came round in the end! We arrived in Peschiera, right at the southernmost point of Lake Garda, at around 10pm to a very warm welcome at Camp Butterfly! They managed to find us a spot for the night, as they ...
19th June 2000 Lake Garda
Monday 19th June 2000 We decided to use the Autostrada from Vincenza to the Sermione offramp, for a day at lake Garda. The drive to the Vincenza entrance to the Autostrada took close to a hour, what with traffic into Vincenza, and then the five ...
Lake Garda, Verona and Venice
... May we took quick flight from Barcelona to Milan and then drove to Lake Garda. We spent the first week touring around the towns of Lake Garda and did some day trips to Verona and Venice. In the Lake Garda area, the towns of Salo, Gardone Riviera, Riva ...
La Dolce Vita Part 1
... ;package tour had died a death) as we flicked through pitch-black tunnels gouged out of the rocks along the eastern coast of Lake Garda, old film-reel images of the lake chattering past through arched windows. Limone sul Garda. The name conjures up the ...
A Weekend with Water
Friday morning we left for Garda Lake. Our first stop was Sirmione, which is a small town on a peninsula. It was strange when we first saw the water, because I kept expecting it to be like a beach and forgot that it is technically a lake, just ...
The Italian Riviera
... today and found a fab market to buy supplies of ham, cheese and vinegar. Took the roads north up past Verona and up to Lake Garda. Being on holiday we'd totally missed the fact that the weekend was almosty upon us, and being still summer time the Lakes ...
Italy
We're on the road again... We stopped in Lake Garda in Northern Italy (the largest lake in Italy) for four days on our way to Rome. What a wonderful surprise for the kids. It is theme park land and a kid's dream...they loved it! ...
Cool Castello
We drive to Lago di Garda (Lake of Garda). On the map, the lake is about 30 miles away, but our navigator again starts the trip with a tour of the dreaded narrow, bumpy dirt road through a winery. Two and ½ hours later, we arrive at our first Lake Gorda ...
Two Villa's
... . No stop (web photo). Drive through Gargnano, where Mussolini spent the final years of the war at Villa Feltrinelli, before trying to escape to Switzerland. Again no stop (web photo). We're trying to make it around the lake and back home before sunset. ...
