A drive up the spectacular mountain road from Lake Idro in northern Italy took my wife Liz and I to the rather steep little medieval town of Bardolino.
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A day spent exploring the beautiful scenery around Lake Idro in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A diversion over to Lake Garda, taking in some of the lovely lakeside scenery on offer in this stunning region of northern Italy.
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Some more of the charming Italian towns and villages on and around Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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Images featuring town of Nesso above Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy, together with photos of light on the landscape from Olcio on the shores of the lake.
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More views from around the beautiful and historical locations on the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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One of the largest towns on the shores of Lake Como, nestled in the mountains of northern Italy, is Lecco, right at the southernmost end of the lake.
Although Lecco is quite a bustling, semi-industrial town it still has a charming waterfront, and well worth the couple of euros parking fee that Liz and I paid to enjoy a few hours exploring the architeture and scenery.
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A few of the smaller, less popular towns dotted around the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A range of photos showing aspects of the small town of Domaso, nestled on the shore of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A range of photos showing aspects of the small town of Dervio, nestled on the shore of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A selection of views out over Lake Como in northern Italy, all captured from the comfort of the balcony on the holiday apartment that my wife Liz and I were staying in earlier this year.
Photography doesn't get much easier than this!
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Continuing our tour around the beautiful lakes of northern Italy, this is the popular tourist town of Bellagio, right at the centre of Lake Como.
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It was a long drive from our holiday apartment at Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy, over the border to Lugano in neighbouring Switzerland.
But well worth the effort for Liz and I to enjoy such magnificent scenery, even if two gelatos cost a small fortune!
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A gorgeous couple of days in late Autumn was all the incentive my wife liz and I needed to head to the mountains of the Snowdonia National Park near our home in North Wales to revel in the beautiful scenery and fantastic light.
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Not all the time that Liz and I spent in the Italian Lakes was spent exploring lakes.
We also had a treat of a day out in Milan, and took in some high altitude driving in the Tyrol mountains as well.
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As well as extensively exploring Lake Como and Lake Garda during our two week stay in northern Italy, my wife Liz and I ventered a little further afield to have a look at some of the other lakes in this beautiful part of the world.
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Moving on from Lake Como, my wife Liz and I spent the final few days of our holiday in the Italian lakes exploring Lake Garda, which had a very different vibe being much less mountainous and more open than Lake Como.
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The small town of Varenna, on the shores of Lake Como in the Italian mountains, embodied everything my wife Liz and I were expecting to see and experience during our two week stay in this beautiful part of the world.
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Continuing our tour around the beautiful lakes of northern Italy, here are just a few of the sights my wife Liz and I enjoyed around the edges of Lake Como.
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Just a brief break from the beauties of northern Italy to display four stunning sunset time lapse videos, shot over the past couple of weeks along the North Wales coast.
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Lecco, at the southern end of Lake Como, was one of the larger towns that Liz and I visited during our two week explore of the Italian lakes.
The lakeside promenade proved to be especially lovely.
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All around the shores of Lake Como, in the mountains of northern Italy, are these charming little harbour towns which my wife Liz and I enjoyed explorings very much during our two week stay.
Here are just three examples, Dervio, Donga and Gravedona.
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At the end of our two week stay in Italy my wife Liz and I spend a few days exploring Lake Garda.
Not as mountainous as our previous location at Lake Como, but that allowed me to capture these two lovely sunset time lapse videos, looking westwards over the lake to the far horizon.
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Three panoramic collages showing the fantastic view out over Lake Como that my wife Liz and I enjoyed from the balcony of our apartment during our summer holiday here in northern Italy.
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Nice clear blue skies and sunshine are all very well in short bursts, but can get very boring over a prolonged length of time.
Fortunately for me, the Italian mountains around Lake Como where my wife Liz and I were enjoying a two week holiday atttracted a good deal of cloud, which made the views out over the lake much more interesting!
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Thanks to the spectacular view out over Lake Como and the surrounding mountains in northern Italy from the balcony of our holiday apartment, my wife Liz and I enjoyed some wonderful natural light shows at all times of the day and night, as shown in these three time lapse video clips.
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Located in the midst of the mountains of northern Italy, Lake Como attracts some interesting weather and lighting conditions, as featured in these three time lapse video clips, shot from the balcony of my wife Liz's and my holiday apartment overlooking the lakeside town of Varenna.
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As well as boasting amazing natural scenery, Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy also features a number of charming lakeside towns, which my wife Liz and I made a point of visiting and filming during our two week stay.
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Here are the next two installments of my Lake Como time lapse video collection - plenty more to come!
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Wow - just back from an amazing trip to the Italian Lakes, staying by Lake Como and Lake Garda.
Our apartment overlooking Lake Como gave me a fantastic vantage point, overlooking the central portion of the lake, including the lakeside towns of Varenna, Menaggio and Bellagio.
So as you can imagine, I gorged myself shooting time lapse videos day and night, and I will present the best of them here at goHOWiE.com over the next week or so.
Starting with these two, showing a dramatic night time thunderstorm over the mountains followed by a quiet, misty dawn over the still waters of the lake itself.
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