Still it was heaps of fun, we went to the waterpark, Canevaworld, which turned out to be really awesome especially in the blazing sun. Unfortunately I left my camera in the locker while we played so I barely have any photos of this place which looked so good with the blue waters and sandy pavements.

ANYWAY

I went on this crazy slide alone. As in literally alone because no one would come with me and the other girl who was waiting her turn with me chickened out!!

AWESOME ride is all I can say.. really scary at the start though especially when I was told to arch my back and ‘make sure to keep your back pressed to the slide as much as you can’ at the top

I love water parks <3
I had so much fun I want to go back!!!

err, taken on the way there

Verona

After ice cream and drinks we drove south to Verona
It was such a beautiful little town

me is ghost

Don’t my legs look so unrealisitically long in this photo??
I actually have short legs!!

A couple of shots using the ‘pinhole’ feature in my camera:

Had dinner along this strip 🙂

Here is a horse

And here it is again, turned into pizza

Apparently horse meat is a specialty in Verona.
So we ordered this pizza, called Furia which is shredded horse meat and rocket pizza.
LOVED It it was soooo yum!

This was guinea fowl something – I can’t remember what this wide flat pasta was called!
Anyhow it was absolutely deeeeeeeeelicious

Had it with fresh strawberry juice (YUM) which I had heaps off throughout the holiday – it’s supposedly an old Italian dessert.

Having dinner there was one of the best nights ever
Sitting outside at night in the warm summer air and having great food.. while eyeing up the horses thinking how good they would taste on pizza.. only kidding..umm not really

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So the next day we drove to Lake Como, which is located about an hour north-west of Milan. The lake is huge and shaped like an upside-down Y. Our first stop was Como town – south of the lake, on the west leg.

The night before we walked to a big supermarket and bought stuff for the trip:
– lots of juice (tomato, peach, pear)
– salami
– cheese
– bread
– crisps
– fruits
– muffins

and some other things I can’t remember

Como

Dress Dorothy Perkins
Sandals New Look

On Rose:
Dress H&M
Bag Topshop (I THNK!)
Sandals Miss Selfridge

There was a Saturday market going on so we had a look
Realised that people around Milan love the colour purple??!

even the customer’s wearing purple pants!

After getting a drink at a tiny ‘cafe’ inside the market we started to drive north along the lake to get to a town called Cadenabbia (or something like that) where we could take a car ferry across to Bellagio (it’s situated in the middle of the lake, sorta).

On the way to Cadenabbia

We stopped a few times to take photos – HEAPS of photos!
Here are some!

I can’t even remember how long it took to get to Cadenabbia

Swimming pool!! AAAAAAh

(Is she staring at my tummy???)

The car ferry was fun!
The breeze was so refreshing on a blazing hot day
LOVE hot days

on the ferry

I packed this velcro ball toy thing that I got from Sainsbury’s and so we had a fun time playing with it we got so exhausted!

Then we went down really close to the lake and dipped our feet in the water
BEST feeling ever

Do I see pink panties? HA HA

Damn me and my dumb face here

Something really exciting happens after this

Got drenched!!!
The water was ice-cold!
And it was heaps of fun!!

Went down by the rocks to play with water again

Had really yummy ice cream here! 🙂

Took loads more photos but had to pick only these few to post or it’ll be a bit much..

Lecco

As the sun was setting it was time to drive down to the eastern leg of the lake, to a town called Lecco which really exceeded expectations as it wasn’t nearly as popular as all the other towns.

It was so lovely!
It reminded me a bit of Williamstown in Melbourne
Lots of restaurants and cafes lined the road by the lake

Love this photo!


My dinner!

Had a great meal followed by lots of gelato
Sat by the lake with swans eating it
PERFECT DAY

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One thing that brightened up my day as we flew across in the plane was the strawberry yoghurt drink that they served. However, I had hot coffee spill all over me and my white tights soon after ARGH.

Anyway that’s besides the point.
I had the awesomest holiday and here comes the first day summary – which is actually the most mellow, compared to the other day anyway.

The weather was PHEW amazing..super HOT
Felt good sweating and getting skin burnt
Love the smell of sunscreen!

These were the steps leading to the park near the hotel
We stayed somewhere between the Duomo Cathedral and Central Station
We’d hired a car but because parking was probably going to b a problem we left it at the hotel and walked about instead

FOOD

It was SO hard finding a decent place to eat after that!
We walked to sort of a high street..
Dropped by Zara..
and were SO starving to death after.

We walked for AGES and AGES through all these weird streets and lanes.
And found nothing but shops with NO FOOD in it.
Started to think that people in Milan survived on dust!

But thank goodness for Wonderful Cafe (couldn’t have been named better)
It was like finding an oasis in the sahara
A seat on the morning train
A size 6 dress in the sale rack
An old bar of chocolate at the bottom of my handbag. On a Monday. At 4pm after skipping lunch. And breakfast. With no money to buy any food with.

Anyway that’s what it felt like

Needless to say the food was DELICIOUS
Reasonably priced too, a pizza was about 5-6 Euros.
I can never go back to normal pizza again.

Wanted donuts from this stall later on
But at 2.50 Euros for a PLAIN donut, no thanks!

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