We visited the Italian lakes area nearly 20 years ago, having driven north from Montepulciano (in Tuscany, whoa) for the day—a long road trip, especially since we didn't leave to return to our agriturismo's apartment until after dark. But there was a peace about the environs that you have to admire, and to want to return to. People on vacation, Italians mainly, just enjoying their time relaxing. Contagious. Hence the six nights at a remarkable B&B in Desenzano del Garda.
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I don't recall exactly which towns these were, in the video (link above), but would be happy to explore any of them. Really, a karaoke guy holding forth in the lakefront moonlight, with John Denver songs? And hearty audience voices joining in, of paisanos sitting next to their Bardolino-filled stemware, faces illumined by tiny strings of lights in the trees.
This is our bedroom, or nearly so (all of them look somewhat like this, and we'll gladly accept the one we are issued upon arrival). Decor is extravagant, clearly; not because it's meant to demonstrate status, I think, so much as that it is a fun environment to spend time in. The included breakfast, they say, is hardly to be believed. And I'm already imagining the picnics that we'll enjoy perched in those chairs on the balcony, right outside the bedroom's sliding door.
I hope one of the bicycles in the downstairs velocipede-stables will fit me; there's a paved pathway that runs for miles/kilometers along the shore of Lago di Garda (Garda Lake). A ferry can take us across the lake to Bardolino, where that hearty red wine is made.
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