Verona -Italy

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Wednesday we decided to go on a trip around Lago de garda. This to avoid a lot of walking, because of the infected leg of Liz. The Antibiotics is kicking in slowly. The ride was beautiful. We packed a pick nick and set the Tom Tom, destination Lake de Garda. He took us on a lovely road, but not around Lake de Garda. There was a river to our left, but we also saw an Autobahn further down. No Lake. Lots of grapes growing everywhere, and we thought they used the Lake for irrigation and had dwindled into the size of a river. How silly. We do not have an Italian map you see. Anyway we found a lovely spot for lunch and continued to the chosen town on the Tom Tom. And than, there it was. We had been driving on the other side of the mountain range. There in all it's magnificent glory was the lake. And with it all the tourists, cafe's, restaurants and cars. And no wonder. The Lake was full of sailing boats-wind surfers,etc. We tried to look passed the frantic behaviour on to the roads and enjoy this great wonder of nature. We drove around the other side and made lots of video and pictures. Although picture quality was poor, because of the haziness, which later developed into some rain. But not before we pulled up at a lovely small hotel-Bar where we enjoyed a cool Iced coffee on the terrace overlooking the lake. Than we threw ourselves back into the madness of Italian traffic. You travel around the Lake through various tunnels, that are exactly two cars wide. All what I heard from Liz was Sh..Sh..., because she is sitting at the wall side. Anyway She reckon I surely have had my European christening and was doing well. We arrived back at the hotel, showered and found a lovely real Italian pizzeria to eat, which was really cosy, nice and reasonable in price, because Italy is twice as expensive as Croatia. All in all a great day. Now the leg to fix and things will be Hanky-Dory again. Next stop tomorrow Grenoble. Bye for now Liz & Allan.

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