September 13, 2011
The single most important thing that determines the start of the day is breakfast. So let’s skip the croissants and coffee and eat something real. It was a cloudy Monday morning, the streets were empty and slightly chilly, we stopped by a local enoteca and ordered a bruschetta Margherita with a glass of white.
Breakfast in Sirmione. I'm not really the kind who photographs every meal, but this one just looked way too good to pass up. Note the fogged up glasses of chilled wine.
September 9, 2011
A long footpath runs along the east side of the Sirmio peninsula on which Sirmione is built. The lake is shallow near the shore and inhabited by variety of waterfowl. Somewhat surprisingly, the Italian swans and ducks overall looked very much like their Canadian counterparts we often see on the shore of lake Ontario in downtown Toronto.
After finally having lunch (the first meal since early breakfast we had before leaving Venice in haste), we took a very slow stroll along the lake shore, enjoying the mountains, the water, the birds and other animals, the lush vegetation, the ancient walls and buildings. It really is a beautiful place. It is nothing like Venice, but it’s completely and undeniably gorgeous. In retrospect, all the places we visited in Italy were very different from each other, yet they did seem to have something in common, too. Something subtly, but distinctly Italian.
Swans looking for some attention near the shores in Sirmione.
August 31, 2011
Bidding farewell to Venice is a hard thing to do, so I will start this entry with some lost and found shots of La Serenissima:
A rare creature rests in Cannaregio – a white gondola. Her name is Gabriella.
August 24, 2011
Some timelapse shots done in Bellagio on lake Como, Sirmione on lake Garda, Ciuk near Bormio in the Alps. More photographs from all these places to come.
Created using Nikon D7000 and its awesome interval shooting feature.