A journey to a mythical place
A castle hovers in the sky
Bright memories – 3
A sultry day. Small boy grouses. He’d rather be in the pool, but no- we’re going on an adventure. We walk through the verdant valley. The river flows, silently. And then, suspended in the sky, we see it! Arco in Trentino-Alto. A sight never to be forgotten, it lingers in my memory.
OMG! A feat of engineering and simply amazing,
Hard to believe, isn’t it, Mel? I was astounded. 🙂 🙂
Literally out of the blue ( sky) awesome 🤩
I still struggle to believe my eyes, all these years later, Rita 🙂 🙂
Oh my Jo, what a magical memory. Love the way it just appeared through the mist!
I could hardly believe my eyes, Tina! Nothing prepared us for it 🙂 🙂
Wow, what a place!
Phenomenal? 🤗💕
Yes!
🙂 🙂
How extraordinary. I want a layer of mist above the town so the castle actually does float. Did you walk up there? It looks like quite a steep up to me! But of course you would have been a youngster then. And you’d probably make it up there now! I am liking these memories you are finding. More please.
Well, I was much younger but we had a 5 year old with us who had just about reached his limit when we got there. You know I would have loved to 🤗💕
Maybe a nice place to go back to with James and his family? Would he remember it?
Certainly he would remember some aspects of it but I can’t see us doing anything like that for a while. 🙄💕
I really like your last photo. 😀 😀
Thanks, Cee 🤗💕
Awesome. That’s a sight you’d never forget.
No, impossible to do so, Graham 🤗💕
Oh wow! Imagine stumbling upon a sight like that quite unexpectedly. The castle has risen! The jaw of the weary traveler falls open as awe overwhelms. 🙂
Yes, something like that, Liesbet. You could say I was gobsmacked 🤣💕
Wow, that’s amazing! A real ‘castle in the air’ 😲 I would love to see it!
I had no idea I was about to see it, Sarah. Quite incredible! 🤗💕
I can only imagine just a fraction of what you may have felt when you saw that castle in the sky.
Looks so out of this world 🙂
Completely, Hammad! It was a ‘pinch me’ moment 😊💕
That’s incredible!
A fairytale castle, Jill ☺️💕
That is a great picture Jo.
Have you been up that way, Andrew? I loved all of the Lakes 🤗💕
We had three days in Como a couple of years ago. My favourite Lake has to be Lake Constance in Germany/Austria/Switzerland.
Not gone that way 🙄💕
Very impressive!
Really, a stunning place 🤗💕
Magical Jo 🙂 🙂
One of the most incredible sights I ever saw, Brian 🤗💕
That’s really extraordinary. As you say, mythical.
Just hanging there in the sky! I could scarcely believe my eyes 🙂 🙂
That’s great to know, Eunice! I can still remember my disbelief when I saw the castle suspended there in the sky. James would only have been about 5 (so 26 years ago!) so we never got beyond having an icecream in the main skware 🙂 🙂
26 years ago was the first time my ex and I went on holiday together and the very first time we went to Lake Garda – I completely fell in love with the whole place and have loved it ever since 🙂
I can easily understand why. I felt much the same 🤗💕
I remember Arco and the Sarca river very well. We would often cycle from the lake along the river on the Torbole side as far as Arco, picnic by a quaint little bridge where there was a popular swimming spot, then cycle back on the Riva side. 2009 was the first time I holidayed on my own, I hired a bike from Torbole and went right up to the castle, pushing the bike up heaven knows how many steep steps to get there. It was only when I got to the top that I found out there was a proper tarmac path on the far side! The views were fabulous though, right up the valley on one side and down to the lake on the other 🙂
Oh wow, Jo… what a fabulous place! 🙂
Almost unbelievable, isn’t it? 🙂 🙂
Just mythical, like you say!
That’s astonishing. And somewhere else I’ve never been to. You’re having a real Memory Lane Moment! Good-oh!
I set out kind of with the intention of creating some skwares, but when I opened this folder I couldn’t bear to skware most of them. Just one or two 🙂 🙂
I know (qnow?) the feeling.
That’s amazing, it’s like a backdrop in a film studio
Unreal, isn’t it? I can still remember my disbelief, all those years ago 🙂 🙂