Another sunny hot day in Paradise - plenty of apples but no snakes!
We left the beautiful lake d'Iseo and followed a twisting route to lake Garda - also lovely! A quick sandwich and rehydration (no this is work - no alcohol!) and on south wards.
The landscape is completely different - gone are the snowcapped mountains, the vineyards are still there but now wheat fields, barley etc.pretty little villages eith massive churches and VERY FEW ICECREAM PARLOURS!!!!! I thought that in Italy even the statues on the squares sold ice cream but no!!!
We passed through the rather beautiful Brescia ( no we've never heard of it either but it was lovely).
After 90+ miles in temp at around 30* we called it a day at another lovely little hotel about 20 miles north of Ferrare. In spite of having emptied 6 bottles of water we broke our solemn pledge of no alcohol before the pre-dinner drinks and had some lovely cool local beers on arrival- double malt beer , lovely!!
The lycra is all washed - ready for a shower and then the table calls!
Our hostess greated us with another local brew on the terrasse and then (with the help of mama and mama grande) served a fantastic meal with proscuiotto, soup ang gnocchi with freshly made foccaccio with melted cheese, local beef followed by sorbet and coffee. Now how are we going to get up those stairs?
Cesinatico is "only" 120 miles away snd we may make it tomorrow!! Pray for northerly or westerly winds - right now they are ..... Yes, south easterly!!! Buna Notte!!
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