Lake Constance is one of the most important and evocative lakes in Central Europe. Although it is always referred to in the singular, it is actually a complex of three Alpine lakes, located at the exact point where the borders of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria intersect. Lake Obersee—the largest, oval-shaped lake—is divided among the three […]
There’s a strip of land, facing the Isle of Man (Great Britain), that juts out toward neighboring Ireland with uncertainty, as if it wanted to touch it but gave up at the last moment, recoiling. This strange square hump, this “lump” on the side of the largest island in the British archipelago, so ugly to […]
Was it a forest? A customs border? Or really a lemon grove stretching to the far north of the Mediterranean area? It’s a bit of a mystery, but this too is part of Limone sul Garda‘s charm. Yes, we are on Lake Garda—between Lombardy, Veneto, and Trentino in northern Italy—and yet lemons grow here. At […]
