After a transatlantic redeye flight into Venice airport, followed by a bus transfer to the nearest train station in Mestre, and onto a high-speed train pointed west across northern Italy. Eventually, Courtney and I finally reached the first stop on our Italy trip which was a little tourist lake town, called Peschiera del Garda, which sits directly on the southern edge of Italy’s largest lake, Lake Garda. Yes, even larger than Lake Como. After walking from the train stop, through the fort’s walls that now surround the small vacation town, we got to see the lake for the first time. …