Saturday, 3 September 2011

Tuesday 30th of August 2011


I was in no rush to get to Andrea's parent's place but it didn't help that I had no fuel and had failed to fill up yesterday when I was in Feltre. So off I headed back to Feltre for fuel. I tried getting the machine at the 'closed' petrol station to take my card but it wasn't having any of them but it did take some cash and once again I was off heading back west this time to Trento and then hit the passes to get to the other side of lake Garda. I stopped a few times for photos but I took a small break near Lago Tenno to take some pictures, eat some fruit and just stared amazed at the colour of the water. Unfortunately the BB didn't do a very good at colour rendition in this case. I got to Andrea's about 3:30pm so about 4 hours in total but I hadn't rushed any of it.

Lago Tenno - was a beautiful blue - much better than in this picture





Riva Del Garda I think... 
There at last
I shouldn't have been surprised really at the size of the house but it was large. It was mostly like a bungalow but like a lot of properties over here the house is build on top of a large garage/basement. The bike went in the general room for things not needing to go in the garage/washroom/store room/boiler room...

A little later on we went to Andrea's wife's home village and to their family's restaurant - la lanterna. Had a coffee from downstairs and some cake that her sister had made - mix of cake and cheesecake - lovely. Then to the lake with the kids and back via the magic taps (fizzy water on tap!) before heading back to Andrea's place for a shower before going out for dinner. We met Andrea's mates at the local cafe/restaurant about 20 metres from the front gate, some wines, some crisps then for pizza and tiramisu and a desert wine for afters. Lots of talking and not all in a dialect that was completely unintelligible although I didn't understand most of the detail of what was said (with Sam Fox - Touch Me playing in the background at one point) I could get the gist of most of the conversations.

Lago Idro 
Mr Lombardi and myself



Fizzy water on tap for free (max 2 bottles per person) - yeh like the italians take notice of that 
The girls trying out the water


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