Lake Guarda (8-9 Septembre 2006)

Our next stop in Italy was Lake Guarda, where we’d get a break from doing the museum-thing.
The drive there was superb!! The scenery was just vineyards, castles and fields of luscious greens.
The water in the Lake is from the mountains. It was freezing, but since it was summer, we convinced ourselves that the water temperature was something one could get used to.


Despite the fact that the place is teeming with tourists (I think we were the only non Germans there), the area felt totally calm.

There were a few dramas with the hotel: couldn’t choose one, overbooked, couldn’t find it when we got there, problem with the rooms… but in the end we ended up with the two best rooms in the hotel, which overlooked the lake itself, and was a five minute walk away from a cool little town!

There was a funny thing about these mountains. They’re the Alps, which makes them pretty high, and rocky, and wooded…except for at the very top. Every time we passed a big mountain it looked rather dangerous and menacing right up until the top, where there were idyllic green fields flooded in sunlight. It was like something from the Land Before Time.












After the sunset, we headed straight out to dinner and after that, straight on to dessert. It was at this point that we discovered the AMAZING ice cream they serve. We sat right next to the ice cream machine (pictured below, with me)


And dad kept adjusting the temperature while the ice cream man had his back turned.

We only stayed there for a day and a night, but we definitely had enough time to enjoy ourselves before jumping back in the and heading south.