Time for lakes

There are times when you hit the road and set off for 3 or 4 thousand km. 

The destination does not matter too much. And the memories you like to keep are journey events, not monuments or places: a mountain pass closed to traffic in the middle of night, missing an awaited call while making it through the Gotthard tunnel, mixing up city names on the GPS and ending up going around the Zurich lake for an hour, discovering that in Luxembourg a bottle of water costs 25 cents.

Besides, all in all, it was a ride from lake to lake: Zurich, Lucerne and Como, all the way down to Monticchio. 

Rich, beautiful, famous Como lake, mentioned in literary masterpieces, surrounded by the stunning Alps, home of celebrities and source of wonderful photos.

 

But Monticchio, what's that? Just a low profile, uncared, unknown volcanic lake in the deep south, home and source of some of the best (and yet ignored) mineral waters around.

Possibly another of those symbols of a land not believing its own promises.