Garda and new friends.

Blood sugars really didn't like the transition from Blighty to Italian lakes because not more than two hours after stuffing my face full of carbs from the last dive they took another jump off the deep end, leaving me to face some rather odd looks as I desperately tried to get the Italian only speaking dinner waiter to bring me orange juice (no not Fanta please) whilst ignoring the beautifully presented sea food starter and loading my plate with chips. Three am also found me rapidly cramming cookies down to persuade glucose levels to rise. 

Life really wasn't promising us much when we had to get the maintenance guy to come sort out our room safe. So it was a pleasant surprise that the day actually turned out to be really fun. We overheard the receptionist discussing the busses out of the village with an English couple so we stopped to find out what they has found out. Turns out busses only ran once a day if they felt like it, take to the boats if you hoped to get back to the hotel. Erring on the side of caution we packed all the goodies we had strangely managed to aquire from our breakfast buffet and headed for the harbour.

We tagged ourselves onto another English couple who introduced themselves as Jason and Dawn from Lowerstoft who has previously lived in Sandwich. Since neither they nor we could make much sense of the timetable or had any idea of where we wanted to visit we decided to support each other in our ignorance and stick together for the whole day. 

Garda was the first stop, further afield seemed to take over an hour with the only returning ferry allowing a scant two hours ashore, so we agreed the 40 min run to Garda was our best option for our first day. Although not large Garda is full of typical Italian terracotta and yellow buildings built close together to leave tourist type shops huddled in shaddy alleys beneath them. Dawn and I wandered along admiring the leather bags while Jason and Martin eyed up the wines and discussed golf. We stopped for a light lunch 

beers and more chatting before returning to the ferry, enjoying Italian ice creams on our way back. 

Dawn and Jason were a great couple, making friends on holiday is a first for us so we're were more than chuffed when they gave us their room number and said we could come borrow their bottle opener for the wine we had purchased any time. Hopefully a few more hours of our holiday might be shared with them.