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May 202015 Tagged with Villa Melzi — 0 Responses

Villa Melzi, Lake Como

We took the passenger ferry over from Varenna (10 mins) to see Villa Melzi despite the threatening rain and were so pleased we did. The garden is stunning, even on a rainy day. Wonderful huge, magnificent trees set in broad sweeping lawns with banks of Rhododendron and Azaleas. Very lush woodland plantings and incredible views over to the other side of the Lake. There’s quite a wide range of plants here with a lovely gully full of tree ferns, huge plantings of Hosta etc.

Villa Melzi is just a few hundred yards by foot out of the village of Bellagio, so very easy access from the ferry.

The Villa itself is not open.

Apr 252015 0 Responses

Trsteno Plane Trees

Firstly, my apologies for the orientation of the picture, but as you can imagine – there’s no way a 500 year old plane tree is going to fit into a rectangular slot the right way up!

Although Trsteno qas extensively damaged in the Homeland War of the early 1990’s when it suffered gun boat attacks and was set alight the two magnificent Oriental Plane trees at the entrance survived. Read More…

Apr 252015 Tagged with Trsteno Arboretum — 0 Responses

Trsteno Arboretum

Noted as being Europe’s oldest arboretum this place was on my “must see” list from the very beginning And as its sited just 15 or so kms north of Dubrovnik on the main road it was an easy visit to incorporate. Read More…

May 092014 0 Responses

Granada – The Alhambra & Generalife Gardens

Today was one of the highlights of our Spanish trip no doubt. The famous Alhambra and Generalife gardens (the garden of the Architect).

Coming this far and to something so incredibly important we find it extremely worthwhile to pay a little more, take more time and enjoy the experience with the insight you can only really gain with a local guide. There’s no way in the world I’m going to remember half of what we were told, but will manage to retain some I’m sure. We bought the book – as you do – it’s only the second one in three weeks so we are being restrained!