Breakfast in paradise We fell asleep last night to the sound of the wind wailing and whistling past the window. We woke suddenly at midnight when the alarm by the bed went off with a shrill buzz…courtesy of the previous guest maybe? We woke again at 12.09am when the alarm…
Aloha! There were several times last night that I was wondering …. WHY did I think that flying long haul for a holiday was a good idea…but fortunately the end of the day reminded us just why it really WAS a good idea. Unlike the last couple of trips, we…
This is another “blast from the past” post , remembering one of our trips to my favourite travel destination – the USA. At the end of a previous post I mentioned that our earlier travels in America had given birth to a Grand Bucket List Plan. That plan… to visit…
Travel shopping – is there a better phrase in the whole world?? “travel” + “shopping” = pure bliss! Neil keeps a spreadsheet for all our trips with costings of flights, accommodation and food etc. I recently asked him if he also factored in the shopping we do for the bits…
Venice is definitely sinking, even the rats are leaving… Our last morning in Italy we decided to sleep in and get ourselves organized to checkout at 11am. We enjoyed our final breakfast in the pretty little breakfast room, our last croissants. We knew the rain was heavier this morning than anything we’d…
The rain was falling lightly this morning and the tide was high again which made things a bit interesting in St Marks Square…. The view from the Bridge of Sighs We toured the Palazzo Ducale first thing, fortunately skipping the line with the Museum pass that we had picked up…
Thanks to double glazing and the shutters in our windows we slept a bit later this morning and thus arrived at the breakfast room at peak hour, it’s the first time we’ve had to wait a little for a table but the bacon and scrambled eggs were worth the wait.…
Despite a comfy bed, I had a shocking night last night. I woke almost every 2 hours, a combination of cigarette smoke drifting in the open window, an early morning coughing fit, an overdose of breakfast prunes having an explosive result in the middle of the night (!), an inconsiderate…
I don’t think I mentioned our head waiter at dinner last night, he was quite a character with a very superior manner but perfectly correct and polite. This morning he greeted us by name at breakfast and directed us to our table with a flourish before snapping his fingers and…
We’ve had all four seasons today. We woke to low cloud and grey skies again in Lake Como which followed us all the way along our drive north along the lakes edge. The drive alternated between pretty views our across the lake and long stretches in tunnels that whipped us…
It’s not hard to see why the lakes are so popular, even on a damp grey morning , the view across the water is just lovely. I’m sorry we have not seen it in better weather but I’m still very happy we came. Heading out on the lake ferry. We…
A modest home Today was our big driving day. We bid a reluctant goodbye to lovely San Gimignano and headed off on winding regional roads north. The pretty vineyard covered hills gave way to flat, more urban regions as we drove through the Empoli area but them rose again as…
