My holiday to Italy

View from Porto Valtravaglia at sunset.

It's two weeks ago I came home from Italy. I'm sorry, I've had much going on plus I was sick once again, so I've postponed writing here. Now I feel like I have the time to tell you shortly about my holiday to Italy and actually also to Switzerland.

Friday 12 October we took a flight to Milano and rented a car for the whole week. We stayed in a village named Porto Valtravaglia (difficult to write it, I learned the whole name in the end of the journey :D) in north Italy. We lived in a rented house near alps and lake Maggiore. Only once we visited Milano and it was cool; we saw the Duomo church and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping center from 1860s. The shopping center was different from the ones I'm used to; this was more beautiful and it was easy to guess it was old.

Duomo church, Milano.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (one of the entrances)

 My week with my family and grandparents was nice. Every day we went on excursions by driving with the car to some places. We ate much out, especially pizza and spaghetti, well... Italy is famous about those dishes. The trip would have been better if it would have been sunnier and warmer. But the views were so incredible; it was easy to just stop for a minute and watch the extraordinary views! :) Of course those who live there all the time may not see the same beautiful nature as I see.

Somewhere near lake Maggiore.

Lugano, Switzerland. A very beautiful place <3

During the week we had time to visit or at least drive by all the cities/villages by the coast of lake Maggiore. The lake is actually very big, but not so wide. We took ferries a couple of times to come from the west part to the east. We also drove over the boundary to Switzerland a few times; there we visited cities, a chocolate factory and went hiking to Monte Tamaro.

Pedal boats, we hired one for half an hour.

Taken from the pedal boat, still Lugano.

I'm happy with the holiday, even though I would have been glad with more sun. I understand the fall shows also there, so I should return in a warmer season.

Maybe I will ;)