Summary Beginning of the journey in the Lake Como: Jérôme meets Cesare Baj, a journalist and seaplane pilot: they have a flight over the lake Como and arrive at the Aero Club Como.Cesare shows him the oldest seaplane built in 1935; then Jérôme buys a tiramisu and hazelnut ice cream and arrives at the port of Como where he meets Daniele Riva , a shipwright who has restored a boat (built in 1908) for his French owner,Mr. Patrick Droulers, Jérôme visit the workshop of the family Riva: eight generations of shipwrights.Then Jérôme travels to the Piedmont where he meets Pia Molteni, a hiking guide: they visit a cheese factory , they taste a blue cheese and buy the local Monte Mottarone cheese: they climb to the Monte Mottarone where they enjoy the sight over the Lake Maggiore. Later Jérôme is in Brescia: Adonella Palladino, a journalist speaks about the Mille Miglia of Brescia (car race from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia): they visit the hall with the classic cars and see the departure of the Mille Miglia Storica.After that Jérôme is on the Lake Iseo: he is with Andrea Soardi and they have fished a pike and sardines.They go back to Monte Isola Island where Franca ,Andrea's mother, manages the fish shop and Fernando Soardi, prepares the sardines (dried sardines or sardines in olive oil): then they share a supper eating sardines.After that Jérôme arrives at Salo (Lake Garda), he goes to a pastry shop and buys a lemon cake: he meets Alberta Cavazza and they go by boat to the Garda island (also called Borghese island) which is owned since 1869 by the Cavazza family: this island has a large history: Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Anthony of Padua lived there, also the poet Dante Alighieri.Alberta explains that her mother Charlotte has restored the gardens and now the island is opened to the visitors.Jérôme enjoys a picnic with Alberta, Charlotte and their grandchildren in a meadow of the island. Besides we see zooms about the lake Como (the journalist Serena Brivio, the Balbianello villa, the palaces, George Clooney and Luchino Visconti), about the Swiss part of the Lake Maggiore (Locarno, the border workers) and the enclave of Campione, about the Valtellina valley (the mountain agriculture, the mountain guide), about Cremona and the luthiers (the Stradivari family and the new luthiers), about the Monte Isola island and about Verona (the Juliet and Romeo tourism, the Roman theater with the classic performances in the summer).

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