Italy was…...

….amazing….but very tiring! We were on a 7 cities in 7 days tour and we expected a few early starts - we weren't prepared  to be setting the alarm for 5.00am some days!!! However, we had an excellent tour manager - a mine of information - an American living in Italy, with an Italian wife. He had studied Italian and Roman history at uni. He made our journeys interesting although he was not allowed to act as a guide when we were in the cities!(illegal apparently!) So where did we go? I'll try and tell you over the next few posts! 
We started off at Lake Garda, Riva del Garda actually - right at the top of the lake. This was our base for 3 nights! On the first day we had time to walk down to the town for lunch and a wander! A lovely old town and the second page in my journal

Here are some more pics of Riva

Our first view of the lake from the coach window

A lovely old building

Inside the beautiful church

One of the narrow streets with the mountain in the background.

As you can imagine, there wasn't a great deal of time to play so I am in the process of adding pics to my journal.
By the way, the first page was a simple pocket to store tickets etc on the journey.

Lovely papers from Crafty Individuals and lots of masking and stamping in similar colours

Tomorrow - Verona - our first city!

Thanks for looking, Chris