Since I have been spending the large majority of my summer holidays driving around Central Europe with my girlfriend. Early on we I were very eager to visit the producers and most stops were indeed in the hearts of the famous wine regions.
For the last couple of trips we have not really arranged winery visits anymore beforehand, preferring to have as little fixed agenda as possible and keeping our options wide option.
Wine is of course still a large point of interest but instead of visiting wineries it is now mostly about restaurant wine lists and geeky wine shops.
This time around our main first actual places to really look for were Pallanza Lago di Maggiore and Imperia Ligurian coast. While the village itself did not offer much there was a cable car nearby that took us higher up to a place called Gitschenen pictured above where we could enjoy fresh mountain air and the absolutely beautiful scenery with very little other people around. After only one day in Switzerland we drove to Lago di Maggiore to a town called Intra, located on a peninsula opposite to the better known town of Stresa.
There seemed to be a decent amount of Gelaterias and having tried a couple of them I have to say the quality was good. My favorite was one called Tamboloni - excellent vegan!!
