The our friend from California arrived: Laura! She wanted to spend one week to get to know Lago di Garda and buy a house with us. Both of which a major adventure!

Getting to know the lake, ferry rides across, strolling through little towns, shopping, hiking, of course eating and drinking, we tried our best to share our love of this beautiful part of the world.

Laura is fun, she is very enthusiastic and easy going, and she also fell in love with Lago di Garda. It is October though, the weather is a hit and miss, but the amount of people is a blessing. Almost none! No problem to get a seat anywhere, no problem with parking, every store owner treats you as if they depend on you. Nice!

With Laura we attended a cooking class in Lazise that was a lot of fun. Cusina by Fracca is the name of the cooking school and it’s run by Ivan & Mirco, two brothers, who really know what they’re doing!

We learned to make gnocchi that we ate with sage butter and tagliatelle with tomato basil sauce. Rose and red wine made us all feel like the pros and lots of laughter made this class a full success!

And while we were cooking, we listened to this: “Felicita” by Albano and Romina Powers – a classic / throwback to my childhood: Die Hitparade im ZDF

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1c0wBsDBu0NqpvxBqjYjZS?si=0cCdJIGURyKOqyxbnvYIUA

As a little treat, they even asked me (3 times) to work with them next summer – hahaha! I feel flattered 😎

Last little adventure of this week with Laura: Alpe del Garda in Tremosine, a cheese & butter production place that has a nice restaurant (Tagliatelle con fungi porcini was delicious!) and a quite big specialty retail store with local honey, truffle, wine, cheeses, porcini mushrooms, spices, pasta, meat & salami, olive oil and everything else you think you’d like to taste!