Creating memories through travel and adventure
September 8, 2025
Motto di Paraone and yet again mountains, outdoor life, hiking, fresh air. As you’ll know from previous musings, these are all the things we love and as I said previously, we haven’t waxed lyrical enough about the hiking in “our”… Continue Reading…
August 24, 2025
Verona is in Northern Italy in the Lombardy region and is an absolutely stunning city with tons of history. But to add some “grappa to the caffè” of this amazing city, it sits very linearly, with Lake Garda a mere… Continue Reading…
August 14, 2025
Lovere is yet another of the Borghi piu belli di Italia (The most beautiful towns of Italy). I mean, the photo above would be reason enough to allow Lovere into the club, but there is definitely more. What can I… Continue Reading…
August 5, 2025
Since discovering the “Borghi piu belli d’Italia” when we visited Correno Plinio, we have been very keen to visit more of the 313 villages given the accolade (meaning “the most beautiful villages of Italy”), so we decided on a short… Continue Reading…
July 17, 2025
San Jorio is our iconic “must-do-every-year” walk. It’s been a while since I’ve put fingers to keyboard and honestly I’ve written so many draughts, but vetoed them all as not-quite-the-right post. Why have I decided to write about this walk?… Continue Reading…
August 24, 2024
We’ve crossed the water to the Eastern-side of Lake Como (well, actually we drove around the north of the lake) for an explore of the towns Dervio, the castle town of Corenno Plinio and the peninsula of Piona and its… Continue Reading…
August 8, 2024
Torno is in the middle part of Lake Como, the Lariana Triangolo and I had a birthday to celebrate. So what better excuse for a few nights away. I may have mentioned this before, I love food; eating out,… Continue Reading…
July 5, 2024
We’re still working our way down the west of Lake Como and on this side our last explore was of Lenno and the beautiful Villa Balbianello. Moving south takes us to Ossuccio, Sala Comacina and Colonno. It’s possible to travel… Continue Reading…
October 1, 2023
We decided Nesso deserved a little more of an explore than our previous short visit, where we had walked from Lezzeno and taken a brief look at the famous gorge and bridge. But looking around at the waterfalls, castle walls… Continue Reading…
