After a horrendous 17 hour journey, we were in Barcelona, one of my all time favourite cities (out of Italy and Australia!). It has been ten years between visits to this city and I was looking forward to getting reacquainted…
Roma, nostra bella vacanza e’ finito
After a most wonderful week around Tuscany, it was time to return to Roma. Zorba drove the Fiat cinquecento back to Firenze, with Tom Tom giving us easy directions to the car hire office, and we trudged in 35 degree…
Where to stay in Tuscany
We had to drive along some pretty steep hills, the last few on dirt roads and our poor Fiat cinquecento struggled. It took several attempts to get up the hill! The agriturismo was a delight.
Toscana
After the disaster of Venice, we were glad to get back to the sanctuary of Tuscany, or Toscana as it’s called in Italian. We checked back into our hotel and were allotted a different, less palatial room. It was only…
Venezia – what a shame, oh how disappointment
Whilst staying in our palatial hotel in Florence, we decided to do an overnight trip to Venice, just taking an overnight bag each and leaving our luggage at the hotel. Having been to Venice a couple of times already, I…