Lake Garda May 22 - 28

This is my first trip to Italy. We left Kassel Wednesday night and drove all night to Italy. I slept some of the way but we stopped ever 3 hours or so to take a break, it was a total of 9 hours drive. I have to say that the drive was beautiful, I didn't get any pictures of the drive there but here are some pictures from the drive back. We drove through Germany, Austraia and Italy. Lake Garda (Lago Di Garda) is in northern Italy, about 20 minutes from Lazie! There were snow capped mountains all through Austria, the roads were winding through the vallies between the mountains, it was so beautiful!




Ever once in a while there were castles/houses/towns that were on hills that over looked the rest of a village. Puts a new meaning to "House on a Hill." It was so beautiful where some of them were located, Im sure that they had a great view of everything.



We arrived at the campsite about 7am on Thursday and we were tired but not really that tired, haha, it was kinda weird! Well the campsite was really pretty also, it was apparently a 3 star site with bathrooms and sinks and stuff like that. Here are some pics of what the lake looked like and what our campsite looked like. The weather was really pretty, we had sun everyday but for some reason there was a fog around the mountains that were across the lake, although it covered the mountains a little, it was still very beautiful!!




Like mentioned, Lazie was about 20 minutes away and we visited that town also. What I noticed in Italy, other then the fields and fields of wine (vino) fields, was that every town had a clock/bell tower in the city. It was really cool because when we were driving back, we could see the different clock/bell towers in the cities and some were very beautiful and elaborate. Here is a picture of the clock/bell tower in Lazie.



There was a huge market area inside this castle like building. It was really beautiful and right on the water. I guess it was Lazie's Riviera. This place had tons of places to shop, eat and just hang out. There were people everywhere going along with their business. Rob and I sat down at a coffee shop right on the Riviera and got something to drink and eat. It was nice to relaz and just take in the culture. I definaltey plan on going back to Italy in July and seeing more of the major cities and taking in more culture!!