Year: 2023

Friday June 2, 2023 We eat another breakfast in the apartment and head out for our morning walk to the old town. We get to the edge of town and go in to visit Scaligero Castle. the castle dates back to the 13th century and is a rare example of a medieval port fortification. It […]

Thursday June 1, 2023 After eating our breakfast, we head out for todays sightseeing. We have a 1100 tour reserved for the Island of Garda. Our apartment is 1.8 miles from the peninsula on which the old town lies and near where our boat fro the island will depart. There is a bus about a […]

Wednesday May 31, 2023 Today we are heading to another of the northern Italian lakes, Lake Garda. We have to catch an early ferry from the island in order to catch a train at Sulzano. We just have a quick pastry breakfast and head out. We catch the 0745 ferry and 10 minus later we […]

Tuesday May 30, 2023 It is nice not having to get up to make a train, bus, or boat and not having a full day of things to do. Still, we do not sleep in that late today even with no alarm set. We enjoy a nice home cooked breakfast and then head out. We […]

Monday May 29, 2023 Lazy days are good. We sleep in and then have a nice breakfast on our balcony. Today we are going on a bike ride around the island. We go around the block to the room where they keep the bikes. We pick two and get ready to go. They used to […]

Sunday May 28, 2023 This morning we are going to Monte Isola. Monte Isola is the largest inland lake island in southern Europe. there are just a few villages on the island and the circumference of the island is around 4.5 miles. We were taking an 0845 ferry to Pisogne, then a train to Sulzano, […]

Saturday May 27, 2023 We sleep in today as we do not have a lot of things on our plate. After breakfast we go out and walk to the Sanctuary of Saints Capitanio and Gerosa. The Sanctuary was built in the 1930s and is dedicated to the nuns Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenzo Gerosa. They were […]

Friday May 26, 2023 Two days ago when I was looking up things for todays travel, I discovered that the Ferry we had planned on taking from Iseo to Lovere may not be running. The schedule was a bit confusing. I wrote to the ferry company and they responded that yes indeed there was no […]

Thursday May 25, 2023 Today we are going to see the Mille Miglia Museum. It is a few miles out of town according to google maps, so we will be taking the metro. We make our way to the metro station and peek into the Church of Sant Agata. It was built in 1300 and […]

Wednesday May 24, 2023 We sleep in a little as the sights we have planned for this morning do not open until 1000. We are going to tour the Brixia Archelogical Park. On the way there, we stop in a small church called Santa Maria Della Carita. It was built in the 16th century and […]