Lake Garda and Europa campsite have been wonderfully relaxing although very hot and humid. We had some excitement yesterday with the Bardolino triathlon. The lake is pleasantly refreshing to swim in although I only floated around because I am trying to protect my painful shoulder. I now think it is what is termed as 'frozen shoulder'. Sacha has enjoyed cooling off by swimming around. My nice convivial neighbours from Scotland left and in their place arrived a...

Leaving Pilzone campsite on Lake Iseo, sat nav tried to take me through an impossibly narrow alley and I was rescued by a local who helped me reverse and showed me another way out. My destination was only 1.30hrs away I thought it would be a good idea to do a 3kms walk with waterfalls. It was an hour of bliss and an hour of sheer terror. At first there were the cascading falls which were so cool and pleasant to cross over. However then there was a 4/5 meter per...