Month: September 2020

Finally dragged ourselves away from Lake Garda this morning. Had to pay €2 to clean the toilet cassette in a special machine – no other option on the campsite unfortunately – add that to the tourist tax and the cheap

Left mid morning for a walk to Sirmione, which looks like it’s just around the corner but took us a while to get there. Luckily it was just flat path along the lakeside for most of the way. The town

Up early and would’ve been away by 9:15 had there not been a massive queue at reception. Paying the bill was straight forward but they wanted the tourist tax (€8 for us) in cash! It was causing chaos as everyone

A strange wind blew in the night unloading all the trees of their leaves – the skylights were full of them this morning. Our flimsy clothes dryer had toppled over in the dust, but it only had a couple of

The fidgety member of the Bramley household thought it would be a good idea to walk into Lazise today. Seeing as it was nearly lunchtime when we had breakfast, I agreed it would be good to do something with the

Loafing kind of day – legs refusing to work after yesterday’s endeavours 😂 Got some washing done and pegged out, then suddenly it was lunchtime. This was when we discovered that the butter in the fridge was soft and the

Most sensible people that visit this beautiful place walk down from the top, not up from the valley floor; that way you arrive cool and fresh not looking like you’ve just got out of a dirty swimming pool! We set

Not much to report today. Left the motorhome park mid morning nursing schlightly sore heads. The man on the reception said that things should be much quieter now that the children are going back to school. He’d gone from full

Had an afternoon basking on the pebble beach with a swim in the warm (ish) lake. Walked into Malcesine the long way round for a Saturday night on the town 😬🍷🕺 I’ve had a rare mixture of Aperol Spritz, white

Set off on another jaunt today just as the temperature was reaching its peak! The Sentiero del Ponale leaves the main road from the other side of Riva del Garda. Its a steep uphill track used by both hikers and