Day 41, Tuesday 24/4:

We were up B&E again today to farewell Bonnie. We said our goodbyes, cleaned the house a bit and then hit the road towards Italy. Along the way we drove through the Gotthard tunnel, at 16.9 kilometers it is the 3^rd longest tunnel in the world. Once out of the tunnel, we found there was a fresh snow covering (fortunately excluding the road), making the landscape even prettier.

 The drive was pretty straightforward until, within 10 kilometers of our destination, our GPS tried to lead us along a road that didn’t exist. As we were on a main road with multiple tunnels and few turnoffs, it was quite some time before we reached our apartment in Sale Marasino, an extremely pretty town on Lake Iseo, a small lake in Northern Italy. The apartment was extremely good, fronting onto the lake itself with views across to the island of Monte Isola. 

Once settled in, we went to explore the town, stopping in a backstreet to have a drink at a bar filled with local gentlemen.