Brittany Ferries for our #ItalyRoadTrip. Brilliant – as always.
The last few years we’ve gone to France, and been lucky enough to travel with Brittany Ferries to get there. Thankfully they put the Barfleur back on the Poole Cherbourg crossing (the Condor Express and I had a little up-and-down relationship a few years back…), and not only does the ship calmly plough through most of the weather we’ve seen without much roll, but we also get a cabin. Which is brilliant, and...
And so… Home. #ItalyRoadTrip
It was with a quiet sense of tired sadness that we finally said goodbye to Italy and headed through the Mont Blanc tunnel on our journey home. Although we still had a full three days of travel in front of us, we all felt that the trip was pretty much over – we began to talk about home and plans for the rest of the year, rather then our plans for tomorrow – or simply sitting back and not really thinking much of anything as...
Day 21 – Seeing Pisa #ItalyRoadTrip
The drive from Ostia was a pretty one through the rolling hills and dramatic countryside of Tuscany – once again, we were frustrated by our tight schedule, and yearning to just head off the autostrade to explore the little villages we could see tucked away onto practically every hilltop we whizzed past. But this was not the holiday for that. This was the whistlestop Grand Tour, and we were headed to one of the husband’s...
Day 19 – moving on again, finding Ostia Antica #Italyroadtrip
Following the amazing madness of a day absorbing the scale of both Pompeii and Vesuvias we decided to take a day on Dei Pini’s lovely beach to relax and enjoy. We swam with the fish, we read on the sand, I caught up with some work… And Boy got nipped by a crab. Twice. But we had many miles still to go, and couldn’t stay still for ever. We have quickly fallen into the swing of living in a motorhome. There is so little...
DAY 17 – Pompeii’s Cave Canem had me lost for words and on top of the world on an active Volcano that is… Vesuvias! #Italyroadtrip
I gazed through the envelope of viewing space in the messy gauze covering, and felt my heart give a double thump. There he was….Cave Canem! The mosaic dog that had astonished my brain and made me fall in love with Ancient Rome when I was not even a teenager. ‘Beware of the dog’ – a Roman with a sense of humour. And unexpectedly the dog is far more beautiful than any picture had ever conveyed to me....