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 […]

Today was our trip to the Cinque Terra. Not too early a start – we had to meet at the Piazza della Republica, only a 5 minute walk, by 8am for an 8.15 departure. We met up with our driver for the day, John, and 6 others and John indicated […]

The hotel we are at – the Bernini Palace – is very nice. The room is very plush and the breakfast room this morning was almost like a palace ballroom. We headed out reasonably early, with Adrienne “drugged up” and headed to the Uffizi Gallery to beat the crowds.  We […]

We have moved on to Florence today. Having woken fairly early again and with our train not due to leave until nearly 11am, we decided to head down to the Trevi Fountain again without the crowds. Sure enough there was hardly anyone there and although they were cleaning the fountain […]

The next few posts are a bit sparse of photos and will probably come in a batch – we are in Florence and the Internet is crap – restricted to my IPad for now. I’ll sort them out better when we get a chance. Today was our trip to Pompei. […]