When I saw the Lake of Garda in Italy for the very first time, the view, coming out of the high mountains was just breath taking.
This is the place my husband came from. (This picture was taken when we were there together in 2010)
Showing posts with label Garda Lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garda Lake. Show all posts
21 Jun 2023
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
15 Jun 2021
LAKE OF GARDA - ITALY
During 16 years of my life each year we spent our holidays at the Lake of Garda. Reason : the family ! In fact Mr. G was born in the north of the Garda Lake and the whole family still lived there around.
It is a very beautiful Lake, the biggest in Italy with 51,6 km length and 17,2 km large and more than 300 m deep. In the North there are high mountains while the South is quite flat.The wind is very punctual, it's windy to very windy at 11 am and again around 5 pm. In between there is no wind when the weather is nice which it is normally. The North is a paradise for surfers !
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The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
21 Jan 2019
SCARING ECHO
When I was a little girl, wherever my friends and I could detect an echo of our voices, we shouted as loud as we could one after the other and laughed when our voice came back. Of course we used the ugliest words and giggled when we heard ourselves. In fact we made a kind of voice selfie.
Later when I was older and went on holidays into the mountains in some places you had a wonderful echo ! You said a sentence and it came back, you sang a little song and you could hear your voice it was as if the mountain was talking to you.
Lake of Garda (our apartment)
During one part of my life I was really scared about echos. That was when we went each year on holidays to Italy at the lake of Garda where Mr. G is coming from combining family visits and holidays at the lake. . The north of the lake is surrounded by high mountains, which look really very beautiful, but ... in some years we had a lot of thunderstorms, which probably weren't that noisy, but the echo from the mountains doubled the effect and it was terrifying ! Normally I am not afraid of thunder but with several echos as amplifiers, it was really awful ! The noise could have woke up a dead ! Sometimes I thought the walls were shaking.
But as for everything from year to year I got nearly used to it and it didn't scare me that much anymore. There was nothing to do against it anyway.
an Echo can be dangerous
No comment .....
Later when I was older and went on holidays into the mountains in some places you had a wonderful echo ! You said a sentence and it came back, you sang a little song and you could hear your voice it was as if the mountain was talking to you.
Lake of Garda (our apartment)
During one part of my life I was really scared about echos. That was when we went each year on holidays to Italy at the lake of Garda where Mr. G is coming from combining family visits and holidays at the lake. . The north of the lake is surrounded by high mountains, which look really very beautiful, but ... in some years we had a lot of thunderstorms, which probably weren't that noisy, but the echo from the mountains doubled the effect and it was terrifying ! Normally I am not afraid of thunder but with several echos as amplifiers, it was really awful ! The noise could have woke up a dead ! Sometimes I thought the walls were shaking.
But as for everything from year to year I got nearly used to it and it didn't scare me that much anymore. There was nothing to do against it anyway.
an Echo can be dangerous
No comment .....
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
17 May 2013
FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE
Saturday's Photo Hunting is here
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1. From warm spring weather we returned to winter again, with rain and cold temperatures around only 10°C (50F). Impossible to continue any garden work. So I stayed inside and only went out to pick up my neighbor at hospital, where she had got her monthly eye shot. The poor woman had gone with her daughter in the morning for a check up and had been diagnosed a tyroid cancer ! But she is very brave and fights and made me laugh the whole way back, describing all the examination with a lot of humor !
2. I started with feeling an oppression in my chest and didn't feel well at all. I felt hot then cold, then both together and finally went to bed with a thick pajama and a jacket and was still feeling cold.
I woke up coughing and it was worse. The whole day I swallowed pills against a cold and took coughing syrup, but it didn't get better.
3. Finally I called our doctor and he came immediately. He knows that if I call it must be something serious. I hadn't seen him for such a long time ! His diagnosis was : Bronchitis ! Now I was really worried because next Tuesday I go on my long planned trip through the UK. But he comforted me and prescribed antibiotics and said that I would be OK to go on my trip ! We know each other since we moved to Waterloo some 38 years ago, when he was a very young doctor and had just started working. Next year he will retire.
4. Mr. G. came back from Italy and looked good, at least he had got some colors although he never lays in the sun. Of course there was a lot to tell and finally despite his reluctance to go to the Garda Lake to visit his sister and some friends, he was now happy about his holidays. And they had very good and warm weather.
5. My son sent me some pictures from the "3 generation" holidays together.
The men still friends since the 50th have changed a little bit ....
But the dining room is still the same even the rifles are still hanging on the wall
It seemed so strange to me to see my little Grandson Toby, playing at the same places and the same games as his father did 37 years ago. It was just feeling like yesterday.
Above left you can see the three generations, besides it's our friend cuddling Toby the same way she once did with his dad. My sister in law and niece also behaved the same way, except that our niece was a young girl then and Daddy didn't play with an Ipad ! Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture showing us as a young family at the same place ! My DIL after a few days joined them for a long weekend, it was too hard for her to be separated from her little son.
Maybe next time I will go with them if we all go and not only the men !
Now I am waiting that I get well again !
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1. From warm spring weather we returned to winter again, with rain and cold temperatures around only 10°C (50F). Impossible to continue any garden work. So I stayed inside and only went out to pick up my neighbor at hospital, where she had got her monthly eye shot. The poor woman had gone with her daughter in the morning for a check up and had been diagnosed a tyroid cancer ! But she is very brave and fights and made me laugh the whole way back, describing all the examination with a lot of humor !
2. I started with feeling an oppression in my chest and didn't feel well at all. I felt hot then cold, then both together and finally went to bed with a thick pajama and a jacket and was still feeling cold.
I woke up coughing and it was worse. The whole day I swallowed pills against a cold and took coughing syrup, but it didn't get better.
3. Finally I called our doctor and he came immediately. He knows that if I call it must be something serious. I hadn't seen him for such a long time ! His diagnosis was : Bronchitis ! Now I was really worried because next Tuesday I go on my long planned trip through the UK. But he comforted me and prescribed antibiotics and said that I would be OK to go on my trip ! We know each other since we moved to Waterloo some 38 years ago, when he was a very young doctor and had just started working. Next year he will retire.
4. Mr. G. came back from Italy and looked good, at least he had got some colors although he never lays in the sun. Of course there was a lot to tell and finally despite his reluctance to go to the Garda Lake to visit his sister and some friends, he was now happy about his holidays. And they had very good and warm weather.
5. My son sent me some pictures from the "3 generation" holidays together.
The men still friends since the 50th have changed a little bit ....
But the dining room is still the same even the rifles are still hanging on the wall
It seemed so strange to me to see my little Grandson Toby, playing at the same places and the same games as his father did 37 years ago. It was just feeling like yesterday.
Above left you can see the three generations, besides it's our friend cuddling Toby the same way she once did with his dad. My sister in law and niece also behaved the same way, except that our niece was a young girl then and Daddy didn't play with an Ipad ! Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture showing us as a young family at the same place ! My DIL after a few days joined them for a long weekend, it was too hard for her to be separated from her little son.
Maybe next time I will go with them if we all go and not only the men !
Now I am waiting that I get well again !
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
21 Sept 2012
FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE
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1. After Aqua Gym while drinking our tea, we had an interesting discussion about diets. The best example was the Flemish politician Bart De Wever the president of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a Flemish party that strives for an independent Flanders. He is a terrible nationalist and almost fascist and we consider him as dangerous. But in a few months he managed to loose 60 kg (132 lbs) with a protein diet.
Before the diet he looked like a personalised pig, now he could play in a horror movie.
We asked ourselves what happened to the skin, from an elephant he shrinked to a racing horse (which is an insult for the horse) but still did the skin shrink with the diet or did he have a surgery. Nobody believes that loosing such a lot of weight in such a short time will last ! Especially because he loves to eat as much as he loves to do the trouble maker.
2. I also started Yoga classes again and it was nice to see my classmates. Nicole joined in for the first time and loved it. It also was the day of the "open door" so we had a lot of spectators.
3. In the middle of the week I woke up and realized I had catched a cold. I caughed and felt lousy !
I hang around the whole day and didn't have the courage to do anything besides my blogging things. I wandered from Computer to TV and took my medicins against caugh and fever. The trouble with me is that when I have a cold, I have fever too.
4. We had the visit of a friend of Mr. G. who is only two years older than our son and whom we call our "adopted son". He always visits us when he needs some help or support in love or buisiness questions. This time it was love, he had broken with his girlfriend and was in a terrible state. We tried our best to cheer him up and I tried my best to make him understand how women work ! Finally he left us after 4 h, feeling much better. Am I happy that I don't have lovesickness anymore, looking back it was quiet an exhausting time !
5.
My son sent us some nice pictures of Toby when they were in Italy visiting Mr. G's sister and niece. They stayed at the Garda lake and when I saw the pictures it brought back so many nice memories. When our son was 2 years old, we also went with him for the first time to the Garda lake, to present him to the Italian family. If we would have had cameras like today, I probably would have the same pictures because the landscape hasn't changed at all ! The people yes of course.
Above Mr. G's sister (80 !) andToby's mum, the two cousins with Toby, below my SIL and daughter with Toby and the two cousins.
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
2 Jul 2009
No THURSDAY THIRTEEN
We are on the road today, we left Italy yesterday, leaving this behind :
Torbole the little town we stayed
and very good food !
Torbole the little town we stayed
and very good food !
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
30 Jun 2009
MY WORLD - Garda Lake Italy
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I am still at the Garda lake, but on wednesday we go home.
The little port of Torbole where we have rented our flat.
it is a paradise for windsurfers and they come from all over the world here for excercising and competitions.
Of course we also went to Rovereto, the town where my husband was born, to visit some family and friends.
The church of Rovereto from inside
On one of the town towers was a sundial (?) It was short after 6 pm I think
little streets
and remains of the town wall
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
29 Jun 2009
FUN MONDAY - My purse
The Church Lady wants to see a photo of our purse and describe what's inside.
As I am on vacation my purse is on vacation too. I don't need one. When we go out I just take my camera along which is in a wallet, I don't need money because I have my cashier with me who also carries a comb I could eventually need, and some tissus in case my nose is running.
That's why my holiday purse looks like this when I go to my "office" with my little computer.
computer mousepad, mouse, cigarettes (thanks for worrying about my health) wallet and somtimes the cable.
my work place
and it looks mostly like this when I walk along the lake. Sometimes I also put my cap and sun cream in it and a book.
wallet, camera, mobile cigarettes, comb
along the lake
Anyway I am not a purse fan, I have one "Kipling" for summer in beige and one for the winter in black.
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
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