It’s the summer holidays and we decided to head south to Italy again. We have already been to the Italian Riviera once and Tuscany three times so we headed east.
Our journey started with a new experience. Usually we would drive through the San Bernardino tunnel to avoid the queues at the Gotthard tunnel but as we were going east after this, Apple maps recommended going over the Splügenpass. We had never heard of it so a quick Google image search showed us a road with multiple switchbacks going up to 2100m. Friends had warned us against it but as the weather looked good and we didn’t want to queue at the Italian border or round Milan we thought we would give it a go.
As we got closer to the ‘interesting bit’ the road suddenly disappeared, currently being resurfaced. Michael was ready to turn back straight away. However we carried on and soon hit the first section of switchbacks.
These brought us to the Italian border.
The drive down was more interesting as the Italians seem to like to stick to the speed limit of 90 kph even around the tight bends. This section was particularly fun!
We stopped for breakfast on the banks of Lake Lecco at around 8:30 with beautiful views up and down the lake.
As we couldn’t get into our room until 14:30 we decided to stop at Lake Garda for lunch. We made our way to Peschiera del Garda and were parked by 11:20. It felt like mid afternoon to us, due to the early start, but most restaurants didn’t start serving lunch until 12:00. We had a bit of a wander and at 11:45 found a restaurant overlooking the canal with tables in the shade. From here we could watch people paddle boarding and canoeing.
We had a drink to while away the time before we could order lunch and just after 12:00 noon the waiter came to take our order. After pizza and pasta we walked down to the lake edge to watch people having fun on the water and then headed back to the car.
We arrived at Agriturismo Canova, just outside Negrar, just before 14:30 and received a warm welcome from the owner. She showed us to our apartment and explained how everything worked. The view was beautiful and the pool very inviting.
http://www.agriturismo.it/en/farmhouse/veneto/verona/Canova-5250081/index.html
We drove down to Negrar to go to the supermarket to get food for dinner and then went back to enjoy the pool. After dinner on the terrace outside we decided an early night was in order after our early start.
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