Verona – Desenzo del Garda

Today's Route

Today's plan involved potentially doing some walking in the hills around Lake Garda, but also we didn't want to go too far north around the lake because on Monday we have to go back to Brescia to drop Will & Jo back at the airport.

We actually left the campsite just after 10am – which, was pretty good considering how late we got to bed and how much red wine we drank! Oh, the photo shows Will "riding" our now broken outside lounging chair - this was the only way to 'sit' in the chair after one of the essential metal arms snapped off last night. Jon was the culprit, he reckoned it "just broke". Yeah right :)

Drove to Garda (of Lake Garda fame) and straight through it. Stopped at a supermarket for lunch supplies and then at the side of the lake for lunch. We did have a little swim – just to cool down – ate lunch and then had a walk along the lake front. Another really attractive place – although quite tourist orientated with lots of restaurants and bars along the front.

We sat for a while and laughed at a couple in an inflatable dinghy who were clearly not getting anywhere fast.and then headed back to the van for the next excitement – Aqua Paradise.

For a mere €19 each (yes, I know – spending money like water) we were admitted to this water park. It was heaving – as you would probably predict for a hot Sunday at the end of July and that meant that there were big queues for all the rides. Everything was water based fun (incase you hadn't guessed) but was – we decided – not that great. We went on all the rides, and some were fun, some weren't, Jo & Jon bailed out of doing the extra high slide (and I don't blame them, it was really painful) and we finished the afternoon with a couple of races. It was fun though – despite being a bit rubbish. Campsite tonight – back round the West side of the lake, so that we are in the right place for our return to Brescia airport tomorrow.

Nothing much going on – Will, Jo & Jon are playing pairs and drinking wine – I am writing the blog and not drinking any wine – I had plenty last night and my poor old liver is creaking with it!

It's a problem though isn't it? When you go on holiday you tend to have a beer most nights – right? Because you are eating out, or walking about, or whatever. Well, that's all well and good until you are going to be away for 7 weeks – and then suddenly drinking every night of your holiday is looking a bit bad for you. We are going to have a dry week once W&J have gone – well, at least until we get out of Italy :)