Postcard from Sirmione, Italy - 11-19 September 2015

I had a dreadful journey from Gatwick to Verona – there was apparently no aircraft for us, but we eventually took off at nearly 10.30 rather than 6.30 on the Friday evening.  I got to my hotel in Sirmione at 1.30 in the morning!  I spent a quiet hour unpacking and sorting myself out!

Fortunately day one was glorious so it was spent by the pool slowly cooking!  As always my little hotel was comfortable, although my room was particularly small!  The food was, as ever, excellent!

On day two the weather took a turn for the worse, so I headed off by fast ferry to Garda.  After a walk around there I walked to Bardolino, but didn’t see much to attract me this time so walked all the way back to Garda.  Stopped by a restaurant for a drink and some lunch, but that was a disaster with a particularly nasty type of restaurateur.  The food he produced was so awful that I couldn’t eat it.  I offered to pay even though I hadn’t eaten it, and he got pretty horrible with me telling me he didn’t want my money, so I duly walked out.  The rains then came down in torrents so I headed back to the ferry to Sirmione. 

The rest of the week was part cloud and part sunny, getting sunnier as the week progressed.  Took a lovely walk around the Sirmione peninsula on Wednesday morning while waiting for the clouds to move on!  Other that I lay in the garden by the pool each day, with my only real excitement being a wasp sting, which was pretty painful!

Thankfully a better return journey – just five and a half hours door to door!