Today is our last day in Muslone and it was an adventure! We decided to take a ship to Sirmione, a town at the end of a 4km long peninsula sticking out into the lake at the southern end. Unfortunately thousands of other people had a similar plan, so all of us met there today 😖 It was jampacked, the restaurants were busy, the streets were clogged, but it is a beautiful old town with an old castle – of course!

When we walked towards the harbor, Ted started running off as if a wasp got in his pants! I tried to catch up just to see him taking photos and talking to a few drivers / capitains of a group of „boat-cars / amphicars“, who were just about to drive into the lake. Over the last few days we occasionally saw a handful of them driving around the lake, but today we hit the jackpot: about 35-40 of them gathered right where we were and drove into the lake! How lucky we were!!!

And the last surprise of the day happened on our way back: we boarded the ship on schedule and started the 1.5 hour voyage back when a big thunderstorm build up. Lightnings, thunder and rain – very dramatic!

Our hope that it will be over upon arrival turned out to be wishful thinking: we ran into a bar, ate a panini there and drank a glass of wine before walking in the rain half a mile uphill to the car. A hot shower at home just felt like heaven!