Italian (mis)adventure

Looks like September will be turbulent. I had planned a trip at the end of October to celebrate my birthday in Italy and take my son to a couple of theme parks he'd love. This was before I learned my credit card had been involved in a fraud attempt (!). Naturally, I had to find out this in the middle of the night having a quite troublesome conversation with a lady back there in Canada where my card was issued. Now, I have a blocked card, a no-one-knows-when new one to be issued and a cancelled trip because both the hotels and, most important, the rental car can not be booked without it. More so, they can't be paid with a friend's card or anything similar, it must be the driver's card. Great.

However, you may like to go sometime. It's a wonderful trip towards Lago di Garda, the "city with painted walls" Trento, the Pinocchio theme park close to Pisa and the Butterfly House which is next to the Pinocchio park. :)

http://www.gardalake.it/
http://www.visitgarda.com/en/garda_lake/
http://www.visittrentino.it/en
http://www.pinocchio.it/eng/pinocchio/
http://www.pinocchio.it/eng/butterflyhouse/

I wish you have none of my experiences on the way there. :) I'm so... disappointed and I really don't want to face the conversation with my son.