Category: Italy

We decided on Lake Garda for the second week of our summer holiday because it appeared to tick all the boxes we want from a holiday. We love mountains, stunning scenery, hot weather and beaches and Lake Garda has them all! It's an incredibly popular tourist destination, particularly for families, and it's a stunning region to visit with a huge…

Staying near Verona with our own car, we realised it was possible to drive from Verona to Venice. The opportunity of ticking off such a popular 'bucket list' destination was too good to miss, so we got in the car and made the just over an hour journey to one of the world's most famous locations. Needless to say, you…

We were originally looking for a holiday villa or apartment near or on Lake Garda for the second week of our summer holiday in Switzerland and Italy. [caption id="attachment_290" align="alignnone" width="800"] View of the main house from the pool area[/caption] We'd left booking quite late and we were really struggling to find somewhere that fitted all our criteria. Ideally we…

We decided to drive our own car from home in Southampton through Switzerland and on to Italy for our summer holiday in order to save on the extremely high cost of flights for our family of six and the very expensive cost of hiring a seven-seater car. We spent the first week of our holiday in the Bernese Oberland mountain…

During our stay in the small town of Marcellise, which is in the Veneto / Verona region of Northern Italy, we visited a few of the local restaurants for our evening meals. Two in particular stood out and really impressed us - here are our reviews of our favourite restaurants in Marcellise... Ristorante San Briccio Review Address: Via Casetta, 10,…