This summer holiday we went visiting relatives. Luckily for us, they live in beautiful places. Here are some pictures from Italy. The weather was very warm, we had over 30 °C every day.
So we spent some days up in the Alps where dusk cools down the temperatures to comfortable ranges for sleeping. 
Life there goes at a slower pace and it is simpler. Very good to relax, and let the stress go. The buttermilk cooled in the trough on the picture to the left was delicious, they make it themselves.
The cow is a young Tyrolean Gray cattle, the predominant cattle breed up there. They are very beautiful and quite small, presumably so they can better climb around on the steep slopes. They're a meat and milk race, so they are bred to be good in both categories. The dairy products there are really good and the meat as well, so I'd say they're doing a good job with their cattle.
As a complete contrast, we went sailing a few days later on the Lago di Garda. It was my first
time there and I quite enjoyed it. 
Again, it was quite warm but I was kind of used to it by then. It just meant the view wasn't very clear. The weather was good for sailing, so there were a lot of boats on the water. The small ones on the right were taking part in a race. The big one on the left was gorgeous to look at. Maybe I'll get to sail on one of these big sailing boats one day. The last picture is very kitschy shot at the estuary of the river Aril, the shortest river of the world with its 175m. 
There is a kind of pond where it originates that even has some fish in, though I doubt that they are anything like an original stock, what with the concrete wall downstream of the spring and shallow run off. A proud inhabitant of Cassone, where Aril is running through, told us there were indeed very big fish in the estuary.
Life there goes at a slower pace and it is simpler. Very good to relax, and let the stress go. The buttermilk cooled in the trough on the picture to the left was delicious, they make it themselves.The cow is a young Tyrolean Gray cattle, the predominant cattle breed up there. They are very beautiful and quite small, presumably so they can better climb around on the steep slopes. They're a meat and milk race, so they are bred to be good in both categories. The dairy products there are really good and the meat as well, so I'd say they're doing a good job with their cattle.
As a complete contrast, we went sailing a few days later on the Lago di Garda. It was my first
time there and I quite enjoyed it. 
Again, it was quite warm but I was kind of used to it by then. It just meant the view wasn't very clear. The weather was good for sailing, so there were a lot of boats on the water. The small ones on the right were taking part in a race. The big one on the left was gorgeous to look at. Maybe I'll get to sail on one of these big sailing boats one day. The last picture is very kitschy shot at the estuary of the river Aril, the shortest river of the world with its 175m. 
There is a kind of pond where it originates that even has some fish in, though I doubt that they are anything like an original stock, what with the concrete wall downstream of the spring and shallow run off. A proud inhabitant of Cassone, where Aril is running through, told us there were indeed very big fish in the estuary. 
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