Author: Janet

“Well….there’s the world road race championships you see – they’re just on the other side of Italy below Bologna” That’ll be the side of Italy we came from a couple of weeks ago then! 🙄 Retraced our steps back through

Gone upmarket for my birthday! I put a dress on so Guy couldn’t make me do any cliff faces. We drove to a campsite just outside Rapallo, then after strict instructions from the campsite owner, we went and stood at

Rain this morning but the sun tried to come out towards lunchtime so we made a dash for the train. We visited the two remaining villages of the Cinque Terre that we missed yesterday. Corniglia first; the smallest of the

We bought a two day train/hiking trail pass this morning for our exploration of the the five fishing villages. We weren’t sure if Guy’s back would withstand carrying the camera whilst climbing up and down steps, so thought it best

Bit of a driving day today, starting with a full circuit of Mantua as we couldn’t find the way out. We had planned to stop in Parma for lunch and a ham purchase, but Guy’s back is not great today

Finally dragged ourselves away from Lake Garda this morning. Had to pay €2 to clean the toilet cassette in a special machine – no other option on the campsite unfortunately – add that to the tourist tax and the cheap

Left mid morning for a walk to Sirmione, which looks like it’s just around the corner but took us a while to get there. Luckily it was just flat path along the lakeside for most of the way. The town

Up early and would’ve been away by 9:15 had there not been a massive queue at reception. Paying the bill was straight forward but they wanted the tourist tax (€8 for us) in cash! It was causing chaos as everyone

A strange wind blew in the night unloading all the trees of their leaves – the skylights were full of them this morning. Our flimsy clothes dryer had toppled over in the dust, but it only had a couple of

The fidgety member of the Bramley household thought it would be a good idea to walk into Lazise today. Seeing as it was nearly lunchtime when we had breakfast, I agreed it would be good to do something with the