Thanks for coming on our picture tour of Italy!






We then headed North to Lac Maggiore (next to Lake Como) for what was supposed to be a couple days discovering the lake and it's islands. Well, it rained so darn hard and so darn much that we couldn't really do anything. So, we stayed one night in the bed and breakfast you see above, drove around a small part of the lake on the way home and called it the end of our adventure in Italy. Loved it!





Eventually we had to leave Barga and head home. We shot down to the Mediterranean coast for my first time at the sea.





Climbing the stairs to our apt. and hitching a ride with mommy for a hike through a bamboo forest.









This little village was only accessible by foot. It's all gray slate and sits on a turquoise lake that has been created by a dam. One of many dams on this little river up there in the hills. Dad and I discovered it and had to take mommy to see it when she was done with work. It had a funny little sign right before it (see below) that we'd never seen before. A no honking sign! Once we had seen that one we realized that they were in many of the towns dotted throughout the mountains and valleys in the region. Still kinda funny.






While out on the bike dad and I discovered many little villages tucked away in the mountains.





Seeing a "chat" (cat) on a rainy day in Barga.





The view out of the Medieval church on the very top of the hill in Barga (below) and the view of the church from the middle of town (above)









While having an "apeiro" at one of the little cafes in Barga, a man that makes his own bagpipes came in to play a few tunes! These bagpipes that he hand-crafts himself are bellows-type bagpipes. Meaning: you don't blow into them; instead you squeeze the bellows that is under your arm to push the air to fill the bag which you then squeeze through the four reeds that create the sound. Quite interesting.



From under the vines at the apt. we rented. That was our view every day. Not so bad.

Breakfast on the veranda overlooking the valley and the the amazing mountains!

Aahhh Barga...

Barga is a beautiful little town in Northern Tuscany perched on a hill in the middle of the Apennine mountains. Mommy had a conference there and dad and I discovered the local culture and mountain roads together.