Blogs from Veneto, Italy, Europe - page 5

Day 38 : Sunday 13 October 2019 : Venice, Italy Opti Shuttle 9.15am to Venice was the quickest, easiest and best value. Picked up on the corner near our accommodation. Long trip on a mini bus, but very comfortable, good speed with a pit stop at a Roadhouse. You get dropped on the outskirts of Venice and have to walk in because there are no cars in Venice arrive12.15pm. No point wheeling your luggage here, on the back it goes. Up and down stairs, through alleys. We got to the Piazza but couldn’t find the Airbnb after that, fortunately, the guy was waiting for us and we looked lost enough he figured it was us. Awesome little unit, modern and has everything, we love this one, has lots of extras. And there’s a little storeroom/shed underneath ... read more

"How lucky we are that surrounded by all this joy we sing inside our own little boat" Kabir Given that we are on a lake and a beautiful one at that this seems somewhat appropriate. There are little boats on the lake . There are large ones too. If you are going to end up somewhere then Lake Garda is not a bad place to end up. All life goes on here . At the bottom of the lake the first place we visited in Suzy in 2012 - Peschiera with its marina and its larger than life campsites Bella Italia and Butterfly where Italians love to socialise and live cheek by jowl. A good train service to take you out for a bit of culture . Bardolino - excellent town with smaller more intimate campsites. ... read more

Day 25 : Monday 30 September 2019 : Lake Como to Lake Garda Off we head to Peschiera del Garda, Lake Garda (prebooked AUD$131). So sad to leave this beautiful place and this fabulous relaxing slice of heaven we called home. On arrival we sorted the train tickets from here to San Candido because I couldn’t book online. Turns out price just doubled ☹it now €150! But its ok, because I booked from San Candido to Lake Bled, a long trip and it was only €32. Just to mix it up, this time our accommodation is a caravan park, on the lake for something different. A nice deluxe 3 bedroom park home!. Butterfly Camping Village. Okay, was smaller than we expected as you can see in the photo Graham can reach both walls and the light ... read more

It seems like no matter what we do, we get home at 5:30 every day. Today I thought that I could skip taking a nap when we got home...but fell into a deep sleep, and I'm now fixing dinner of pasta, butter, and cheese at 7:45....I'll be so glad when jet lag is over.... Since the rain was not supposed to start until nearly noon today, we went for a long walk around the local villages: Villa, Torch, Garna and Shiucaz. We walked past fields of wildflowers, past churches, homes, and farms, and down to a river, where the road was closed due a landslide. There was a wedding in Garna, and the church bells rung loudly across the mountainside. On the way back, two paragliders landed at the local club right next to us! We ... read more

We slept well last night..it is silent here after dark, and very quiet during the day. Everyone seems to have at least one dog, but they don't bark at night. We woke around 6:30 am, and were on the road by 9:30. We had decided to visit the national park near Belluno today, but didn't have concrete plans after that. We found the trail area in the Cordevole Valley after a few tries...life is more complicated without google, although we did download maps while we were on wifi at the apartment...We don't have data here, so we are navigating with a GPS, paper maps and road signs, and sometimes the help of strangers. We took a short hike along the river, and returned on the narrow country road, through a few small villages. In one, there ... read more