Italy 2013


Livigno – AV XIII

Today we had all kinds of weather on our trip up into the mountains to our destination Livigno. It was very grey and overcast as we left Lenno and headed along the lake through various little towns perched on the lakeside. Some of these towns we did not actually see […]


Lenno (Lake Como) – AV XII

We woke to fairly steady drizzle this morning and the forecast for the next few days is fairly similar so in this part of our trip I don’t think we are going to see too much of the mountains with the low cloud cover. Yesterday was also the end of […]


Lenno (Lake Como) – AV XI

Well we have had our first major driving day for this holiday and managed to escape unscathed ! Like most things in Italy – which seem to move at their own pace – our checkout this morning was a bit slow so it was after 9.30 am before we were […]


San Gimignano – AV X

Today we decided to have a pretty quiet day. Last night we had a very nice dinner – we had a delicious bruschetta – the tomatoes are just so fresh and full of flavour and the herb flavour superb – I had the local specialty for my main course – […]


San Gimignano – AV IX

Today was one of those “wow, oh wow, oh my god, oh wow” days !! After another lovely breakfast in the grand ballroom, we packed up and headed off to the airport to collect our rental car. Florence airport is really pretty small – the departures area is you go […]