Exploring town

in Varenna, Italy

Traveling with young kids means you have to do it on their schedule. In this case, it was really nice because we got into town much earlier than most folks. We had plenty of space walking the Greenway dei Patriarchi, enjoyed a liesurely breakfast at a waterside café, and I especially enjoyed finding the best passageways to photograph.

A lush green mountainside with a walkway. A passageway with tan brick on one side and red stucco on the other. A sun-lit passageway with one yellow wall and one white stucco. A man in a personal motorboat with the lake and mountain in the background. The buildings along the shore of the lake, with people sitting on the steps leading to the water. A passageway with yellow walls and a large arch at the top.

We also picked up my mom who'd been travelling to Venice and Murano on her own. Once we had her in tow, we spent most of the afternoon collecting beach glass in various spots on the water. She's very passionate about it and her enthusiasm has caught on in our family. Aydo really loves finding pieces and admiring the collection afterwards, sorting by color and describing the shapes he sees.

Two plates with beach glass arranged by color, and one plate with all the pieces mixed together
Top is my mom's, left is Aydo, right is mine.

Finally, we enjoyed a fancy dinner compliments of my mom to finish our day. I loved the appetizer of fried buffalo mozarella, but we all agreed that Karin's lasagne was the tastiest of the table.

Fried buffalo mozarella sitting on pesto and tomato gazpacho on a white plate Well-browned Lasagne with red and white sauces drizzled on top, sitting on a white plate. Ravioli with red sauce and green asparagus.
Fried mozarella, beef lasagne, and scampi ravioli.
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