Lombardy

[October, 2011] When we were around Sirmione on Lake Garda, Italy, the traffic was so heavy and there were no space for parking, so we nearly gave up, but luckily one car pulled out. Good…

[October, 2011] I went to Lake Garda in Italy again.When I went there earlier this year, it was stormy weather, but this time the sky was wonderfully blue.In Desenzano, the antique fair was on and…

[August, 2011] I went to a zoo called Le Cornelle near Bergamo in Italy. This zoo is famous with white tiger. What these children were watching was not white, but a brown tiger, which was…

[June, 2011] The sound of cow bells is a part of the atmosphere of the Alps and make people feel rather happy.It is a good sound, but for cows it is the 24 hours’ sound…

[June, 2011] I went to the Alps from Milan.I took the rope-way from place called Moggio and arrived at Pian d’Artavaggio.This is the place you cannot help singing the theme song of ‘Heidi’ (Japanese animation–famous…

[June, 2011] One Saturday, after 5pm, suddenly we decided to go to Desenzano, a town on the Garda Lake in Italy. When we arrived, it was not raining, but soon it started and became like…

[May, 2011] One weekend in May, there was Sardinia Festival in Monza, a northern Italian town.There was a market of specialities from the island, the parade by Sardinian people wearing their costumes as you can…

[March, 2011] In Mantova, there is a house of Rigoletto, a famous opera by Verdi.Rigoletto is not a real person, but the story was created with the image of this house.In the story of the…

[March, 2011] One weekend when I felt that spring has come, I went to Mantova in Italy.It is a fairly big town with a lot to see such as  a castle and a palace and…