Villa Taranto

After reaching granny and take her up, we reached a McDonalds near Lago Maggiore around 12.30 PM.
I thought it would have been a good idea to stop there for lunch because we all love McD's, granny can eat something she likes too, Sampei pays less than taking us all to a restaurant, Momochan loves chicken nuggets and I can take two Happy Meals and have the special Shaun bento box (now we have four so we are ok).
This way we are all happy and as we discover shortly after lunch, Villa Taranto is really near.

We arrive in a few minutes, we park inside the free parking lot and Momochan starts to jump around and look flowers.
The botanic garden is a enormous place with bridges, hills and paths, sun is shining and the air is scented, flowers, warm stones, pine bark, bees and the tweet of birds transform the surroundings in a quiet relaxing dream ;) Here the world seems to have stoppedd for a while. Sampei had free day today, we had organized this trip since a couple of months as I wanted to take Momochan to the Lago Maggiore to see a special place since last year: Villa Taranto, a big botanic garden full of plants, trees and flowers coming from every part of the world.

We walk up and down under bridges and up the hills, pines, azalee, giant orange and yellow poppies, magnolie and other plants are everywhere, some gardner men are cutting the grass and cleaning the earth, some other are planting new flowers, everywhere bees are flying happily and Momochan laughs enchanted.

After having walked here and there for the entire park and stoppedd for a coffee at the big pool, we decide for Momochan could be nice also, to go on the lake with a boat so we direct to the main gate where we discover, there is a small corner which sells plants and flowers.



Sampei wants to buy a small tree, a kind which has normally greenish leaves that changes to dark red in september ;)

We put the plant inside the car and we drowe away, the pier was nearby, we just had to park in fornt of the pier entrance and buy the tickets, boat was already arriving and Momochan was jumping happily, the trip is at the Isola dei Pescatori ;)