Blogs from Trento, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy, Europe - page 2

Hi!! Just a quick note to let you know we are safe in Dro! It was really awkward at first, haha, the first people we met interrogated Ian and Dillon a little bit, haha they had to prove they were family by naming like a dozen people in different pictures, which is kinda difficult for them, haha. Everyone else is great and it turns out some of them were in San Diego over 10 years ago and they had 4 pictures from a family party and Ian and Dillon were in one! Haha so that sealed the deal, and was pretty cool. Its so beautiful here you all would love it. It is straight out of a movie, i swear. The family is amazing, we have never eaten so much in our lives. We are hurting ... read more

We left Strigno and instead of taking the valley road to Trento we travelled via the mountains to the tiny town of Lausan, one of the Austrian strongholds during the wars. Trento is a Roman town founded in 1BC. The annual medieval archery tournament of "Palio delle Contrade", held between the 8 town segments or contrade, was being held in the old town square. People were wearing period costume and demonstrating crafts like spinning and weaving, metal working with a forge, woodturning and bookmaking. We also drove to the alpine villages and ski resorts on Monte Bondone, Trento's winter playground, climbing to a height of 2000 metres. On the roads we met cyclists and motorcyclists. At the top hikers were out in force plus the people just soaking up the sun. Deep suntans are the height ... read more

This day was almost an action replay as the previous. We got up, bought some more pizza and juice, but traveled to a different lake, Lake Molveno. The bus rides out to these lakes provided great scenery, there were vineyards and fields of corn everywhere. Lake Molveno was just as pretty, if not prettier, than Lake Garda, with a fantastic backdrop, plenty of skydivers, and a quaint little village. It was a bit colder than the day before so we passed on swimming but skimmed stones for probably close to an hour. Before getting a bus back we sore the greatest jersey ever made, I want one! We had also bought a whole range of local beers from the supermarket that day, so once we got back we polished off a few. Tamara had invited us ... read more

We hadn’t sorted out where we were going to stay for the next night or two, we had thought about going to Verona, so tried to find something there online. We couldn’t find anything so ended up deciding on going further North to a place called Trento. A decision I am glad we made. Brendon phoned up and booked us into the hostel there. We checked out of our Venice hotel and trained to Trento, the countryside was beautiful with lakes, mountains and vineyards everywhere. Kind of felt like we were somewhere around Queenstown or Wanaka back in NZ. Once we got into Trento, we sat in a park opposite the hostel, waiting for it to re-open at 3pm, some Aussie girls were doing the same so we had a yarn to them. They were ok, ... read more