When in Italy: pizza, canals, and mountains!

My plan for Italy was very different but the weather doesn’t always play according to my rules, and then I adjust

I had about 72 hours to sprint across Italy and get to Slovenia before a lot of very rainy days were about to begin.

So I skipped the cool Alpine passes and the coastline, too.

But I did manage to squeeze in the three things that I was really craving:

1. Garda lake and sunset pizza.

Half margarita / half marinara as I couldn’t decide which one I wanted more.

2. Venice. The most romantic city ever.

I’ve been to Italy so many times but never in Venice. Probably because I was afraid to break the illusion, the pretty picture of the canals I had created in my imagination.

But the time has come to see it already. No expectations. Just go and see with my own eyes. It’s probably just a couple of canals, a few boats, one billion tourists – five photos and I’m done.

And then I saw this! Saw and fell in love! I was wandering around and getting lost, finding more and more adorable corners, streets, boats, and of course canals.

Clothes hanging on a drying line across the water.

People enjoying an Aperol Spritz along the boardwalk.

Somebody is eating a pizza at the bridge stairs.

Pink streetlights.

About 400 bridges, all so different but equally cute!

The sun, the clouds, the sunset, the lights after dark…

This is love

3. Fusine lakes

I was pushing my limits with the weather, and I can confess that it was very cold and I had to use all the layers I could. But it went fine and was totally worth a little bit of suffering!

Those view

It was three intense days but and I made it to our new home in Slovenia and just about half an hour later the rain started.