Month: May 2023

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 […]

Tuesday May 23, 2023 We wake up and have breakfast before walking to the train station. Today we are going to Brescia. Brescia has Celtic roots dating back to 1200 B.C. but it grew into an important trade and manufacturing center when it became a Roman colony in 89 B.C. At that time the heart […]

Monday May 22, 2023 Today is one of those days that we throw in every once in a while. Not a ton of things to do and probably could have moved on from Pavia. The easy tour day allows us to catch up on rest and travel chores, as well as enjoy a city at […]