This is my favourite photo from our holiday in Lake Garda last summer. I haven’t changed it in any way; this is exactly the same as through my own eyes. I haven’t got a fancy camera and usually have no idea about composition but somehow this looks right to me. (If you click on the photo you can see it much bigger and get a better idea of the scene)
Lake Garda is a phallic-shaped body of water in the North of Italy. I was told it resembles a witch’s hat but that wasn’t what came to mind when I looked at it on a map. We stayed in a town called Bardolino, in the testicular region! They do a fabulous cheap, extremely drinkable red wine that I’ve since found in Tesco and Sainsbury’s. Highly recommended!
This is my contribution to the “colour” theme at The Gallery which can be found at Tara’s Sticky Fingers website.
Fabulous photo Trish… and go on, give us the name of that wine. Or is it simply called Bardolino?
@The Dotterel – yup it's Bardolino! I should have said, haha!
Oooh, that's just beautiful.
If I click my heels three times, will I end up there with a pink drink with an umberella in it?
Lovely photo. I am off to Italy on Thursday!!
Ooooooo that is GORGEOUS! What an amazing sunset! 😀
That's lovely – one to add to the list of holiday destinations!
Lake Garda is gorgeous. We've been camping around there, and it was lovely.
If you go again – see if you can stop by in Verona during the summer and go and see their opera in their ampitheatre there. One of the top 10 travel experiences of my life, and I'm not even that big a fan of opera!)
Thanks everyone for popping over!
Brit – last year I kept moaning that I wanted to go to the Opera in Verona but I couldn't persuade the family (particularly as I'd dragged them to a French version of Les Miserables when we went to Quebec). Now you've got me fired up again: will definitely go back.
Amazing picture, it's so nice when a picture just captures exactly what you see, isn't it? Fab.
Beautiful photo AND a wine recommendation – RESULT! 🙂
Oh I love the shadows of the mountains (when you click to see it bigger). Fabulous!
Stunning! I'd love to go there, I'll settle for the wine in the meantime 🙂
Take me with you – please? You can have my firstborn as payment….
Beautiful colours. I'd love to be there right now. 🙂
That is totally stunning.
CJ xx
I lived 30 mins from Lake Garda for 18 years and know it well and i'm off there this year in June and cannot wait. I'm staying close to Peschiera in the balls region too 🙂 Hope you managed to get to the Speck Stube in Bardolino.
Witches hat? No way, definitely phallic
Gorgeous photo
Lovely. Would be great to be sipping wine there right now!
Would love to know the name of the wine, quite partial to Italian reds of any price. Lovely picture.
A very tumescent image! LOL. Gorgeous actually.
Oh how pretty…
That is lovely! What a beautiful sky!
Really beautiful!
Beautiful picture would love to go there!
You should get a job writing for the Bardolino region's tourist/wine industries – I'm sure you could get plenty of adjectives on the back of the bottle's label – '…a lovely drop of nectar from the testicular region. I'm getting……….'
What a lovely photo, it just needs a glass of wone to go with it.
Some lovely comments here – thank you!
@marisworld – 18 years of living near Lake Garda sounds bliss. No I didn't get to the Speck Stube. Is it a bar or restaurant? Another reason to go back again.
@goonerjamie – Bardolino!Currently around £4 a bottle – not too mcuh tannin so less of a headache after!
@madamesmokingun – will get in touch with them now, splendid idea!
I've been to lots of places in Italy, but never lake Garda. I shall have to add it to my ever growing list…
Beautiful pink, Beautiful photograph. The perspective is just right. Always wanted to go to Lake Garda. Is that near where George Clooney lives? Or he's Como isn't he? Whatever, I'd like to go. Sigh.
Just makes you want to give up the day job and explore the world really … with a glass of something pink and fizzy preferably…lovely picture…
What I'd give to escape this drizzle and be there enjoying that sunset…
What an absolutely stunning photo!! It makes me wish I was there… Fabulous.
I love this image and found you via The Gallery. I have tagged you on my blog
Do you know where I'm going for my 'summer' holidays this year, Trish? Huh? Belfast. For two weeks, in August. I am going to cut out this gorgeous picture and tape it to the inside of my sunglasses.