A DINNER NEAR THE WATERS OF THE LAKE, WRAPPED IN THE MAGIC LIGHT OF SUNSET. 

Sunset at the Restaurant Dei Poeti / Hotel Sirmione - Lake Garda

Hi everyone! Excited to share this post from a wonderful lake resort so near home, definitely one of our favourite places to have a weekend trip in spring and summer. 
And during last weekend, a light dinner based on basic French cuisine, at the Restaurant dei Poeti inside the Hotel Sirmione on Lake Garda, was the way my partner and I chose to celebrate the last summer days, on a Sunday late afternoon. 
Since we simply cannot get enough of the exclusive feel of this refined place, whenever we are in the area, we decided to have a light dinner based on Salade Niçoise, a reminiscence of our last holiday on the French Riviera, even if we have already known the high quality of the traditional, local menu created by the chef Cristiano Aldegheri. 
The landscape was perfection. While the sun was going down with a vivid swirl of varying blues, pale pinks and golden hues, anticipating the soft twilight of Mediterranean late summer, we admired, from a table arranged on the jetty of the Restaurant dei Poeti, the smooth overlap of the silvery waters in the little wind, under the dying sun. The lake was a pale and quiet pool, the lights around were gleaming. On a jetty nearby a saxophone was playing old jazz tunes, and since the sound of a saxophone over a stretch of water has always seemed intriguing to us, we listened in a mood of intense appreciation, with a sense of being attuned to life, with a radiating brightness and a glamour around us that is so rare to experience. A low, pale oblong detached itself from the shade of the peninsula, emitting the reverberated sound of an old-style ferryboat. Two white streamers of water rolled out behind, drowning out the acid sound of the saxophone in the drone of its spray, before disappearing in an immense circle of ripples round and round in the middle of the lake. Then it was the turn of seagulls gliding on the surface of the lake to try to submerge the music. Finally the lake was quiet again and the sound of the saxophone could reach our ears again...
Thinking about the crazy busy week ahead of us once back home, made us want to go on a relaxing weekend soon. So we are definitely planning another trip to escape from routine as soon as possible!

Sunset at the Restaurant Dei Poeti / Hotel Sirmione - Lake Garda

Hotel Sirmione - Lake Garda

Hotel Sirmione and the Old Castle - Lake Garda