Italy Day 2: Walking Around Rocca D’Arazzo

2014-08-03Uncategorizeditaly, rocca d'arazzo Standard

[This HAPPENED on 03 August 2014, but was written 24 SEPTEMBER 2014. Take everything with a grain of salt!]

This semi-clouded Sunday, Holla and I ventured out with the kids to visit a near-by water-slide park, which turned out to be CLOSED!! No, there was no notice on their Facebook page, or on their website. All I could find was that they ‘reserved the right to close if the weather wasn’t good enough’. We were so shocked we didn’t even take a photo of the closed-waterpark-at-a-distance-across-an-access-bridge-that-was-closed… but Google Street View did: (49 images total)

This is as close as we got to the Asti-Lido waterpark. Oh, and there were NO SIGNS directing us how to get there. Maybe that was the hint that it was closed?

We tried another public swimming pool nearby, but that was also closed. I ended up contacting our ‘landlady’ and she said the park was probably closed due to ‘bad weather’ (25°C but not a whole lot of sun). She kindly called around, and told us there was a swimming pool 30 minutes away through the winding country roads that was open on this Sunday. It turned out to be a very plain swimming pool adjacent to a camp site, so we opted against it.

Instead, the adults with fully functioning legs (not me) took a hike up to the village proper that we were in, Rocca d’Arazzo. Our house was where the big X is:

The small town of Rocco d'Arazzo. The house where we stayed (X) was on a small hill, which lead up a

The small town of Rocco d’Arazzo. The house where we stayed (X) was on a small hill, while the village was up on an even taller hill.

Since Finnur took the photos in the village, I’m just going to post them below with no commentary (who reads that anyway?!). After the hike (most of the kids stayed behind, either napping or playing) we filled a kiddie pool with water, and they splashed in it until they all got cold.