Let's Just Go to Malcesine

This entire trip to Europe started with one reason: my friend Hannah, who I met on the Disney College Program back in 2010, was getting married. In a castle. On Lake Garda. In Italy. She said she was only inviting people she knew would show up. I showed up.

In this episode I am talking about:

Getting from Verona to Malcesine by private transfer — the beautiful drive, the narrow roads, and why you want someone else behind the wheelLast-minute shopping in Verona: Scout, OVS, and a pair of Birkenstocks I am pretty sure do not exist in the USArriving in Malcesine and why it immediately felt like a fairy taleThe Hugo spritz — what it is, why it is better than Aperol, and why I now have a bottle of St-Germain at homeThe castle wedding: a bilingual ceremony on a cliff above the lake, a 30-minute walk along the water to the reception, and a bride and groom who arrived by boatThe best lasagna I ate in three weeks in ItalyBeing the only Americans at a very international weddingGetting up early and finding a grapevine terrace before the tour groups arrived — the quiet morning version of Malcesine is a completely different place

Next episode: the Disney Cruise Line Greek Isles itinerary — Mykonos, Corfu, Valletta, a sea day with an active volcano, and a septum piercing somewhere in the Aegean.

Find me across all socials and at kaylareneetravel.com — travel planning, blog posts on every destination from this trip, and TikTok videos of that harbor view that people genuinely cannot stop watching.

Until next time — let's just go.