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The Gallery – Holidays – Laughs on Lake Garda

Trish Burgess Posted on06/07/201007/04/2016 Italy, Lake garda, The gallery 16 Comments
 
  

The theme for this week’s Gallery is ‘Holidays’. Right up my street this one, though fraught with difficulty as to what to choose. In the end I plumped for some photos from our holiday to Lake Garda last summer. This was a perfect break – relaxing, no scary adventures, just lots of sun, book reading, pasta and vino (especially the local plonk, Bardolino).

The words below were from my holiday diary of one evening from a blissful fortnight.

” I suggest to Dougie that we contact our rep and go on a couple of organised tours. He is initially very wary and I have to coax him into trying not to imagine his worst organised-bus-trip nightmare of being herded around with a lot of Brits in socks and sandals. Eventually we plump for a night cruise to Lazise.


The night cruise consists of a trip to see the Bay of Mermaids and then a stop in Lazise for an hour or so. I’m not sure what I expect of a “cruiser”: it looks a bit small to me and we are all seated in rows whereas I had somehow imagined myself wafting around on deck. We have two holiday reps to accompany us and the running commentary from Angel (I kid you not) is priceless:

“Hi, my name’s Angel and this is Robin, but he doesn’t like to be called Robin so call him Rob instead……and our driver, well, oh yes, we’re on a boat (giggle), yes, well he’s called Luigi……everyone say hello to Luigi….Ooh there’s a family of swans…..there’s the female swan called a…a…yeah that’s the mother and the baby swans…what are they called again?…hmmm yes well the eggs hatched in five weeks and you can see they are still brown, you know they can go white overnight? When we get off at Lazise……what’s the proper word for that Luigi?…….oh yes, disembark, yeah well when we get back on again the boat will either be on the left hand side or the right hand side.”
Thankfully young Robin (sorry Rob) is a nice chap and goes round the passengers handing out glasses of Asti Spumante (no expense spared). Our son, aged 13, is also given a glass and he makes sure he glugs it down pretty quick in case someone changes their mind. He is in a lovely mood after that.
The town of Lazise is gorgeous, especially at night, and we have an hour or two to explore – the castle, ice creams, the strange entertainment – before we are whizzed back to Bardolino. Not a bad evening at all: Dougie is warming to the idea of someone doing it all for you, and his impressions of Angel keep us all chortling for the rest of the holiday so that’s worth the money in itself”
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16 Comments

  1. Very Bored in Catalunya Reply
    06/07/2010 at 10:53 am

    I want to go to Italy! *sulks*. That Angel one sounds a right sort…

  2. London City Mum Reply
    06/07/2010 at 11:18 am

    Love lago di Garda – excellent choice!

    LCM x

  3. Steve Reply
    06/07/2010 at 12:16 pm

    That's an incredible looking ice cream. I want one!

  4. Sharon Reply
    06/07/2010 at 1:57 pm

    Sounds like a fun holiday! Have you seen mine? Hope this comment gets through!

  5. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    06/07/2010 at 4:58 pm

    VB – you're in Spain. Shut up. 😉

    LCM – grazie grazie!

    Steve – gerroff, it's mine!

    Sharon -Popping over now – comments now working, yippee.

  6. Deer Baby Reply
    06/07/2010 at 6:57 pm

    I love funny commentaries on coach tours and bus tours and anything like that. Hilarious. Can just picture Angel and Robin…I mean Rob.

    You certainly do have some lovely hols.

  7. libby Reply
    06/07/2010 at 9:27 pm

    Well done for persuading your husband to 'do the organised thing'…glad it turned out well. Had to smile at the thought of Rory gulping down the fizz!

  8. dawniebrown Reply
    07/07/2010 at 9:53 am

    Oooh that is so my type of holiday 🙂

  9. kerry jean power Reply
    07/07/2010 at 10:22 am

    italian ice cream is next level isn't it?

    and the pasta and wine obv!

  10. christinemosler Reply
    07/07/2010 at 12:05 pm

    I am drooling and dreaming! Fabulous!

  11. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    07/07/2010 at 1:06 pm

    @deer baby – we had a great tour guide once on a trip to Niagara Falls. He was called Fred Breeze and god he could talk; we called him "Shooting the Breeze"

    @Libby – Rory didn't need to be asked twice; it was so sweet it was just like lemonade.

    @dawnie – ah it was brilliant.

    @kerry – divine!

    @christine – I'm drooling too, just remembering.

  12. Victoria Reply
    07/07/2010 at 3:25 pm

    Sometimes the least promising events turn out to be the best ones. Angel sounds like a gem.

  13. @jencull (jen) Reply
    07/07/2010 at 4:18 pm

    I want to visit Italy and I definitely want one of those ice creams 🙂 Jen

  14. planb Reply
    07/07/2010 at 6:32 pm

    I don't know what you were talking about. I love these pictures! Plus you made me laugh!

  15. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    07/07/2010 at 8:41 pm

    @Victoria – you are quite right. They make the best tales too.

    @Jen – can heartily recommend them!

    @plan B – Oh yes, I was moaning on your post that I should have done a collection like yours. Glad I made you chuckle x

  16. KidsTravel2 Reply
    08/07/2010 at 9:02 pm

    sounds a fun night out 🙂 Ice cream making my mouth water!

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