Hotel Flora Beautyfarm Trento

Day 5 Again consider stating on awhile, but reflect we are only just over border, and have hankering to press on: Garda it is then!. Decided we wouldn't re-visit old haunt: best to leave happy memories undisturbed. Besides, if we go up East side, we can visit more little towns more easily. (This turns out to be wise decision, as we have terrrific ride out on scooter all along lake-side. Beau-u-u-tiful! Bardolino ...

Departed Dublin around 07:30, first stop Italy for the wedding. Arrived in Malcesine for lunch. Checked into hotel Alpino, a great little spot, right in the centre of the town, chilled for a while then caught up with friends who were already settled in.
Weather was a bit of a mixed bag, but we still had enough sunshine to make the most of our time. We got the ferry across Lake Garda to visit Limone for the amazing invisible market and ...

Ciao! greetings from the alps! So far our time in the alps has been really awesome. The people here are incredible too. The receptionist, Monica has become a good friend. It's been pretty productive in the short amount of time we've been here too. Last weekend we took a day trip to Verona. We saw a baby colloseum where apparently they play live music in the summer... :) We mainly spent the day shopping but my favorite part was when we went to Juliet's balcony, from romeo ...

... with. Pino took care of all of us. I gave him the biggest hug out of all of them. After breakfast we brought our luggage to the lobby. I went outside and took in the view one more time and then it was time to leave. We cried so hard, we said goodbye to Manuela, the person we saw the most. We even cried when we said goodbye to the maids. Right before we left, Manuela stuck her head in the van, completely in tears and blew us all kisses. I had no ...

Dopo aver trascorso le ultime vacanze in posti di mare decidiamo di testare la resistenza di Nicola (2 anni e 4 mesi) ad un volo che superi le 3 ore così decidiamo di visitare New York addobbata per il Natale. La durata della nostra visita sarà di una settimana nella quale cercheremo di condensare le principali attrazioni della città. Prima ...

Today we decided to explore the hills around Verona and Lake Garda. The hills are a mere 20 minute drive from the centre of Verona which reminded me of Canberra, with its close proximity to bushland. The drive through the hills, OK, mountains, was very picturesque. One our travel we found a very steep and tight road curving its way up, climbing about 600 meters. The road would make ...

The first thing this morning we packed, again, then I downloaded Carols photos so far in the trip- 950 of them! My camera is malfunctioning so we only have hers for the rest of the trip. It is eating batteries, but not really-after about 2 shots said battery needs replacing and refuses to take any more pictures! Very upsetting! Our luggage is at the desk as we are out of the room but not using the car yet. We will pick it up later. There is a huge marathon ...

... mile to their home. I would guess we have walked about 2 miles today! After 7 we headed out to their house---and got lost. Not too bad though-just missed seeing the house though we had taken the correct side road. Called and she ran out and met us. They had dinner ready- fresh minestrone soup, chicken with spaghetti sauce, bread and some delicious potatoes, then some baked peaches with a chocolate on the top-very good. After dinner we a ...

... the end I was understanding most of what they were saying. Plus, I really liked the frescoes! Especially January, with it's medieval snowball fight :) After that, we found lunch at a random pizza place, where we had hands down the BEST pizza in Italy so far, and the best Italian style pizza I've ever had. Mine had radicchio, eggplant, mushrooms, tomatoes, and cheese, all deliciously burnt and thin... it was really good! And then we had gelato, which was ...

... was not in fact in Canada he announced his disdain for how enormous the United States is. Bewildered at discovering that Canada is larger than the US, he reasoned that our greater size was due to Alaska being a part of our country. If you ask me geography lessons are overrated. The uninformed are much more entertaining. Nonetheless you should all find Belgium on a map, or ask your travel agents to do so and get yourselves over here. I'll be waiting...