Nope it’s not a spelling mistake 😉 L’acqua = the water in Italian, why you asked? After having a consultation with Julius, Claudia, Julia, Daniel, Nicola, Silvia, QQ Dite, all of them encouraged me to continue my trip to Italy, on one condition, I have to make an adjustments from the original plan, it must involves more eating, sitting and less sightseeing. I am sammeln-ing my courage to go, in the end decided to skip Milan, bought a new flight to Verona directly.
I arrived Verona in somehow quiet evening time, I didn’t do much except checked in, youtube of what to eat- I chose Bigoli Ragu and went back to the Hostel.
Next day, I hop on the train departs from Verona Main Station to Desenzano Del Garda-Sirmione to meet with Giovanni aka Joe. That stations’ name were exactly where we went to do sightseeing, Desenzano and Sirmione. They are surrounded by water, l’acqua everywhere 🙂
What is the prove of the l’aqua, here they have Hafen 🙂
I was lucky that on that day, Densenzano had a market, so it’s a “pop up” market, let’s called it that way where they put all the items they sell inside a car then drove else where and so on. The market was kind of full of everything from kitchen utensils, clothes to ofc The Doctor 46!
Joe and I met in Shanghai 5 years ago, we are a big fans of Sushi O so he took me to another Sushi restaurant in Desenzano haha very authentic Desenzano food! He said it wasn’t even cross his mind to take me somewhere authentic Desenzano. He directly thought “Oh Marlyn is here, let’s have Sushi”
Let’s rewind a bit, he understands the homework so well! I told him I was just turn negative and don’t want to do many walks or sightseeing please just plan the activity that only involves eating and sitting because before he planned to do either kayak, paddle boat or whatever things they can do on the water, nope, revised needed 🙂
The Japanese restaurant was all you can eat #another proof that he is doing his Homework well, we managed to ate it all even after several snacks beforehand. We did sat there until they almost closed but the waiter are Chinese so they are nicer to me 🙂 #advantage of speaking the language yo!
Then we took a walk around the lake Garda from whatever directions as it is a big lake, if I recall correctly what Joe said….it’s the biggest lake in Europe-not sure if it’s true, #too lazy to Google 😉 He was so total in taking pictures, very dedicated, try portrait, from this angel etc, good job Joe!
Then we drove to Sirmione, they have castle and church as city center and everything surrounding it just so beautiful. It is not big but has a lot of character, touristic yes but a good one. They also have a small cafe surrounded by greens, I mean…. in the middle of forest.
Wait! where is the l’acqua? Can’t call this post Acquamarlyn if Marlyn is not in the l’acqua! Relax, here it is 🙂
Although I ain’t really do much other than pigging out = eating, having a Pipas snack that I carried back to Verona, drink Aperol, stop on ice cream store, I did feel tired! Not sure if its a Corona effect or a Foodcoma sensation 😉
To close the day, Joe drove me back to Verona and since we both in Europe now, we don’t need to wait another 5 years to meet up again 🙂 but of course not as fast as one week after -_- haha let’s fast forward to the day I came back to Germany, Joe texted me “have you arrived Germany safely? I also just arrived” I was like “wtf, stop following me! hahaha we just met last week yo, I’m not ready to meet you again in the airport” 😀 Just kidding! for sure when Joe have a business trip to Germany in NRW and if both of our time fits, I’ll meet him again, until then…. take care my friend and thanks! keep healthy, I hope you will make it till the end without ever having Corona sickness history 😉