Yvonne, as you can probably see from the map the rail line from Venice only skirts along the south shore of the lake with 2 stations at Peschiera and Desenzano.

This may sound o.k. but the real appeal of Lake Garda lies further north along either shore. If you do not wish to transfer to the bus, say at Verona, you could base yourselves at Desenzano and make trips up the lake each day.

I would favour Des' because it is the boat depot for the whole lake so you would get a good choice of options. If you were intending to stay for a week or so then it would certainly be worth while relocating to one of the nicer resorts such as Garda or Malcesine.

By the way I always wondered, can you buy good maps of Italy in Oz.?

Good luck,

Bob.

Hi Bob. Thanks for your reply. Yes I'm sure I could buy a map. I have requested the Italy Lonely Planet book from my nearest library, so I'm hoping this will help me.

What is most confusing are the names of places, not knowing any Italian it's very difficult to get my head around such names. However I'm sure I'll work it out. Once we have seen a little of Ital we are coming to the UK. I have Relys in Derbyshire & Yorkshire.

thank you once again.

Regards

Yvonne

Derbyshire and Yorkshire are on our doorstep, so if you need any directions.

The main thing about Italian is that every vowel and consonent is pronounced ! in all words. Some Italians even manage to pronounce both Ts in 'citta' !

You'll have a great trip

Good luck,

Bob.

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