Trip to Italy

Originally our plan was to drive to Dresden and Saxony for Easter and the week after. Unfortunately though, Yana got sick the day before the Easter weekend, with a cough, fever and, as it turned out, her first tooth breaking through. Hence, we spent Easter at home feeling bored and trapped inside.

On Easter Monday Yana felt a lot better, so we decided to escape cold and miserable Germany and head over to the other side of the alps - to Italy.

The trip started off with a big portion of bad luck. After already taking longer than we had thought to get through the alps, the heater in our campervan broke. This required us to spend a night in a hotel in the dolomites, waste a beautiful sunny day shopping for an electrical heater and take even longer to get to Venice.

We finally made it to Venice on Lindsay's birthday. We loved the city, but our experience was slightly tainted by the rain and the exhaustion of having to lift Yana's pram over the hundreds of bridges. We were not aware of the fact that ALL bridges in Venice contain steps. We got a good workout though and managed to see all the touristy areas, as well as some nice quiet spots.

After leaving Venice behind, the weather got better and so did the trip itself.

Near Verona, we turned off the motorway to follow the directions to a free campervan spot and discovered a cute town called Soave. We spent a whole day there, walking through the narrow streets, along the city wall and up to the castle. It was the first time that Yana got to crawl around in the gras and play with daisys.


The last day was spent at Lake Garda, where we went for a walk along the lake and Yana played with the stones on the beach. It was 18 degrees and felt like spring had truely arrived.

On the way back home we stopped off in the campervan-friendly city of Trento, where we had a drink outside one of the street cafes and did a little sightseeing tour.