Still Cant Find What We’re Looking For
20/02/18 – 21/02/18 When Aaron was at school I remember him doing a Geography project about the plains of Italy. The plains which stretch across the north of Italy, south… Read more »
Category: Italy
Red Road Houses on the Adriatic Coast
18/02/18 – 19/02/18 The weather was still pretty dreary so we don’t feel like doing anything active. We decide to start our journey north for some skiing and pick the… Read more »
Whatever Happened to that Petrol Cap?
17/02/18 It was a mystery. We were on our way to the mountains and stopped at a fuel station to fill up with Diesel only to find that we had… Read more »
Yet Another Amphitheatre
16/02/18 After Vesuvius we migrated north east through Caserta, a town strung along a main road lined with relatively affluent showrooms and stores. Our parking spot was towards the western… Read more »
Almost to the Top of Vesuvius
15/02/18 Snow had been falling on Bertie on Valentine’s evening. Fat flakes that hadn’t settled on the road but had frosted the trees. We didn’t know what Vesuvius summit would… Read more »
An Unsuccesful Seaside Jaunt
13/02/18 – 14/02/18 Oour plans to walk on Vesuvius were being delayed for a couple of days due to a rainy weather forecast. We couldn’t decide how to spend the… Read more »
Up, Down and All Over Pompeii
11/02/18 – 12/02/18 We spent Sunday driving down to Pompei (the town) where were due to visit Pompeii (the ancient city). Our route took us initially through pleasant agricultural landscapes,… Read more »
Chilling Out in Itri
10/02/18 While in Campodimele we decided that we would drive down to Naples before heading north again for some skiing. We weren’t sure what we would do after skiing so… Read more »
After the Old Stuff, Old People
07/02/18 – 08/02/18 After Rome Paul decreed that he couldn’t cope with any more ‘Old Sh*t’ and needed to detox. So it was time to find somewhere we could walk… Read more »
Six Nations Rugby in Italy
04/02/18 While we were travelling Europe it seemed an ideal opportunity to watch England play a six nations match in Italy. Why Italy? Well firstly because it’s easy to get… Read more »
Overwhelming Rome
03/02/18 – 06/02/18 Rome has won the prize for the most overwhelming location we have visited so far. I don’t think either of us had really been prepared for a… Read more »
All Roads Lead to Rome
01/02/18 – 02/02/18 With apologies in advance to bloggers Paul and Michele of Our Leap of Faith. Yet again we appear to be stalking you. Great minds and all that…… Read more »
Hot Springs Eternal
01/02/2018 One of the things I’ve missed most while travelling in our motorhome is a long hot bath. I usually prefer a shower, but whenever I’ve been stressed, anxious or… Read more »
The Hollow Ways of the Etruscans
30/01/18 As we drove south through Tuscany the land slowly flattened out. From the steep sided closely packed hills of the north we ventured through lower hills and wider shallower… Read more »
Bagno Vignoni and the Via Francigena
28/01/18 – 29/01/18 We moved on from Greve-in-Chianti to find something less strenuous to occupy our time. Tuscany has a number of hot springs and so we thought we’d see… Read more »
This Green and Pleasant Land
27/01/18 Part of the appeal of Tuscany, we decided, was the amount of green growth we could see. Even in winter when the trees were mostly bare, the hills and… Read more »
Leaning Towers and Impossible Towers
26/01/18 Every blog I’ve read has reported disappointment with the Leaning Tower of Pisa. So it was with lowered expectations that we headed for Pisa. A bit of backtracking but… Read more »
Walking Walls in Lucca
25/01/18 The city of Lucca was our first stop in Tuscany, founded by the Etruscans and with an abundance of renaissance buildings, it looked like a pleasant place to start… Read more »
Avoiding the Riviera
24/01/18 From the Verdon Gorge we had decided that our route to Italy would be along the coast rather than through the mountains. This might have been the wrong decision…. Read more »