Sun 31st May – Thurs 4th June Accommodation: Grand Park Hotel, Rovinj Sun 31st May It was another beautiful morning for our drive down to Rovinj, Croatia and the boys had one last Trieste ride and us girls had one last walk. The drive down was rather uneventful except I would say the roads in… More
Wed 27th – Sun 31st May Accommodation: Mira Verde Apartment booked on AirBnB. Wed 27th May It was good timing to be leaving Venice as rain had arrived but we left that behind us on our drive down to Trieste. We met up with Colleen and David at Palmanova for lunch and made it to… More
Sun 24th – Wed 27th May Accommodation: San Zaccaria Apartment booked on Booking.com. Sun 24th May It was another glorious day in this part of the world, apart from the fact that we were charged an enormous fee (€182) for parking our car in Padua for 2 days & 18hrs. Lesson learned there: don’t… More
Thurs 21st – Sun 24th May Accommodation: The View: booked through AirBnB. Thurs 21st May It was another glorious morning and excellent weather for our 4 hr drive up to Padova (Padua). We left San Marino after breakfast and only made one stop along the way and this was at the halfway mark for a… More
Mon 18th – Thurs 21st May Accommodation: Casa Parco del Mare booked on Booking.com. Mon 18th May It was a 4 hr drive up to Rimini from Termoli but we had great weather which helped the journey to go smoothly. Our accommodation in Rimini was an apartment by the beach, rather than being close to… More
Sat 16th – Mon 18th May Accommodation: The Heart of the Borgo: booked on AirBnB. Sat 16th May It was a good day to be leaving Matera as the rain set in just after we’d reached the car park and put our bags into the car. It was a 3 hr drive across to Termoli… More
Wed 13th – Sat 16th May Accommodation: SASSIDreaming booked on AirBnB. Apologies in advance: but there is a lot of text in this blog update as there is just so much history here in Matera. It is more for my records so just skip to the photos. Wed 13th Our accommodation for the next three… More
Sun 10th – Wed 13th May Accommodation: Eden House. Mon 11th May It was another early start for us today as we had to meet down at Marina Piccolo at 7:40 am for our Full-Day Capri, Anacapri and Blue Grotto tour. Our guide for the day was a young, friendly lady, Francesca, who had spent… More
Fri 8th – Wed 13th May Accommodation: Eden House. Fri 8th May It was with some trepidation we entered our Sorrento apartment, following on from the disappointment of our Caserta lodging, but we were pleasantly surprised and then more some! The place was amazing! It was clean, modern, spacious, well appointed, with great natural light… More
Thurs 7th – Fri 8th May Accommodation: Le Muse booked on Booking.com. Thurs 7th May Our drive from Formia down to Caserta was only going to take about 2 hours so we filled in the time before check in at our next accommodation with a visit to the archaeological site of Anfiteatro Campano and the… More