Lake Garda

Well, after all these years I'm back to post something, surprisingly. But only a small post for a start, will try to keep going and follow up soon. We went to Lake Garda in September, to Riva del Garda on the northern shore. It's a rather small village with a small port but beautifully surrounded by mountains and olive trees. Only divided by a rock is a sort of sister village: Torbole (picture). Here good old Goethe stayed for a couple of night during his famous Italy travel.

Despite of the main road and the ugly hotels along it and the tourists which inhabit these Riva is a paradise-like place with all the plants and trees and olives and fruits and vineyards and so on...

It even gets better if one climbs the surrounding mountains. The view is amazing, the air is fresh and suddenly the important business issues from last week seem so remote and small.

We entered a boat as well and discovered the other part of the lake. The picture shows the city harbor of Malcesine, also mentioned in Goethe's travel diary in an interesting story...