After visiting the famous Venice, we headed towards Brescia region, where some of our friends live, and it was unacceptable to be there and not stop by for a short visit. We tried to not get to Breno by using the highways, but after getting mixed up in some I don’t know what town where they did a reroute due to some closed road, with very poor signs…we found our way on the highway, which was not easy either, and decided to not take any more chances…

Ha…well we were not that lucky and got lost again at the exit from the highway and we had to go around quite a bit, crossing some mountains, on narrow streets. We finally managed to find our way on the shore of the Iseo Lake, and while researching the map we found an interesting place to visit, the Pyramid Towers on Zone. The place looked amazing, and for sure it deserves a longer visit.

Well as we got relaxed, again we got lost in the maze of tunnels, and I did something I thought I never would…I turned the car in the damn tunnel…just to exit a place we were there before…so we went in a circle for quite a bit until we found the right entry in the tunnel to lead us to Breno.

After all this adventure we were quite annoyed especially since our GPS would not get reception in a tunnel. I doubt any gps would have reception in a tunnel.

This being said, we reached our friends around 7 pm…and enjoyed a home cooked meal in a wonderful company, together with our dear ones. Unfortunately our time there was too short, and next day we headed towards Bernina pass in the majestic Alps in Switzerland.

All I can say is that I was amazed, astonished…shocked maybe…at the white magical beauty of the mountains…the kingdom of snow and ice…When I think back I am still in some sort of dreaming, because everything was so surreal, and this might be one of the most beautiful landscapes I ever saw in my life.

We tried to drive a bit towards Stelvio Pass but it was closed so we turned back, and after passing through the longest tunnel in our Italy journey , about 8 km at once (the whole series of tunnels was about 20 km long), we said our goodbyes to this part of the world, and headed towards Croatia. That’s another story however…