Barbarano

We hope you enjoy our journal. We have tried to capture the experiences and emotions of our slow travel through Italy, rather than repeating the sort of information you will find in some very good travel guides.

To António and Renata that were great mates for this Trip! Love you Guys! And let's win the EuroMillions so we can buy each other a House at Lacco di Garda! :)

My trip to Stocholm and Turku

... road from Vincenza to Este (40 km south), of which Barbarano is one, have sister towns on the main road. So there is Barbarano Vicentino (where we were), and 4km away on the main road, Ponte di Barbarano. Mossano and Ponti di Mossano. Nanto and Ponti ...

... but smoggy in the distance. So, when we arrived at our apartment at Il Castello, a villa on the edge of the village of Barbarano Vicentino, the sky was clear and blue, and the temperature warmish. It had only taken 4 hours from door to door, three hours ...

... , I had also planned on driving through two towns near Montagnana, Polana Maggiore and Novent Vincentina, on the way back to Barbarano. Both are listed as having major Villas. We photographed the villa at Polana, as well as a castle being restored on ...

Saturday 24th June 2000 We had originally planned to leave the car at the Villa in Barbarano, and taxi to Vincenza station to travel to Venice. We thought to revise the plan, when we thought we could take a boat down the Brenta canal to Venice. Taxis ...

Thursday 22nd June 2000 Even leaving Barbarano at 7.30 am wasn't good enough to get us close to Bassano del Grappa at a reasonable hour. I amazed Cheryl by getting a break in the oncoming traffic as we approached the La Rotonda. I dived across to the ...

... , and discovered that the towns major Villa is now their townhall. We stopped for a photograph, and then on to Ponti di Barbarano, where we had ginormous pizzas at the local Trat., sitting out on the verandah and watching the traffic go by, and by and ...