Riva San Vitale

Location Description

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The Virginia Tech villa. It was only mentioned in...
The baptistery across the street from the Villa. This...
My bedroom in the apartment -- the apartment was huge!
The kitchen, dining table, door to the living room (back...
Looking back towards the bedroom from the kitchen.
Living room.
More living room. I did nothing in this room other than...
Hallway down to the front door and the bathroom.
Bathroom - the one room that was quite small, which...
On our way to go hiking on Thursday afternoon. Who knew...
Carin (white shirt, left) claimed that the whole trail...
Looking down towards Riva.
This picture does not show this well, but these trees...
Maggie, a friend through Pittsburgh Penguins / hockey love.
Catherine at the first of two false-finishes to the...
Purty fleurs, as some would say. Kind of like lilacs,...
Sitting on a ledge overlooking the lake at false-finish...
Riva and the Villa are basically in the corner of the...
What is that I spy? A building of some sort?
Why yes! It is an old monastery at the top of the...
Sadly, it was super-hazy the day of our climb. The...
The monks, while not in any form of residence at the...
It seems odd that it could take both 1 hour 20 and 1...
Beautiful roses outside the Villa.
Close-up of the roses.
One of the things I really wanted to do, but never got a...
Saturday night, before I could get my dessert (pineapple...
Happy Catherine with cake.
As such, it took a while to finish. And suddenly, I...
More pretty flowers, in the garden of the Villa.
Garden path, with the Villa in the background
Maggie reading under some very neat trees that had...
Back door to the Villa.
Reading area.
Neat trees.
I had fun trying to interpret the various road and...
Hey! Hockey! There was a little floor-hockey rink...
Schnappy the plastic gator (from a previous trip) meets...
The view from the bar near the Villa towards my...
Osteria San Giorgio -- the perfect bar for us,...
A road sign I never figured out. "Zone of stopping......
The day we headed to Zurich was quite windy, and the...
The beach I swam a few times. That hill in the...
I really wanted to find a postcard (or poster) of this,...
The really neat bridge just outside the spiraling tunnel...
Now the second.
And the third. I wouldn't have minded going around a...