Apparently the Tuesday market is a small one. The big one is Friday so it is inevitable we must go. It's 32C when we meet on the edge of the stalls, which run from the seafront right up to the fountain on the roundabout. Tuesday's is mainly food but today the majority of stalls sells clothing and shoes. There are others selling cushions, tools, toys and one with budgies, chipmunks and goldfish. We stop for lunch as they start packing up. The vans have...

N+G set off for a lap of the lake on the motorbike. We walk about 2 miles to Sulzano. Today the haze haqs lifted showing off the colours of the mountains across the lake, and although warm there is a fresh breeze. Sulzano is a sleepy little town but one point of interest is a garden centre selling olive trees and bald cypress trees about 3m tall in large pots [too big for souvenirs]. We find a small bar on the lakeside and have a light salad lunch looki...

Convenient but noisy is the only way to describe this stop, but at €8.40 it was good value. We have two hours on the autoroute with the gauge showing 35-36C, and wall to wall trucks. As we approach Iseo we have a few long, dark tunnels high above the lake. As we exit one tunnel Snoopy says 'now turn right'. The Iseo exit was not signed before the tunnel and inside it there were no 500/300m warnings so we miss the exit. A mile or so later we take the Sul...