PICTURE PERFECT

This evening we went to visit a really really beautiful lake! I have absolutely no clue its name is or any of its background history except for that it used to be a little village and then Mussolini did something (?) and it become a lake, haha, yes, no very informative... a hopeless attempt at its history but the story behind it wasn't important because it was so beautiful! What got me the most was that it was a bright neon turquoise colour and I don't understand how it could be a colour like that, but anyway, it was "picture perfect".....It was pretty big and there were two main villages around it...


So the first village that we went to was really high up on a hill, over looking the lake and all of the roads were super steep, a mission to walk up when you're tired and hot, but worth the photos of the water at the top....I'm afraid I cannot assist with the name of this little town because I was never told it and it seemed pretty deserted, so besides form the lake, not much of a huge event. It was really really silent from the top of the village though, so serene and it was funny cause if you were quiet when you got to the top, all you could hear was the clanking of the bells around the neck's of all the cows on the close-by farms....


The next village we went to was called Colle Di Tore ( not sure on the spelling) and was right on the opposite side of the lake. Again, beautiful views but this time not as high up and a lot more lively with people around and stuff, etc...


Then we drove to another town called Poggio Moiano which is in comparison quite big and there were lots of people around even till late... here we had dinner at a pizza and pasta restaurant which was really nice, just sort of a goodbye type thing. The Italian's eat so much but its weird because not many of them are overweight and stuff, but woah, I must look ridiculous by eating "so little"....I mean you'd read about stuff we have at home, but like I could never make it through a whole pizza but at the restaurant this is what they ordered:
They started with baskets of deep-fried stuff like for example I tried rice with mozzarella crumbed and deep fried into like a little ball but there were also ones with just cheese, some with crab and others with meat and rice inside....then two baskets of break with olive oil, garlic and rosemary came out (I've noticed they don't ever use butter on their bread), then a platter of tomatoes and mozzarella balls, another platter with cold meats and a platter of veggies like artichoke and olives, etc and then came the whole pizza! I had margarita just because you'd be surprised how good something so "plain" is there, keeping it simple and delicious!


So tomorrow I move to my next family in Rome...I'll let you know how that goes :) 
- Caity xx