Life's about experiences. These are mine.
When people talk about Italy a number of places come up such as, of course, Rome, Tuscany and the Amalfi coast. We are just along the coast from Amalfi and we decided today to take a local bus and explore out that way. If you have ever seen any photos of the Amalfi coast it …
Continue reading “Italy ‘19 – Day Nine – Sorrento and Positano”
Today was a something and nothing day sandwiched between two parts of our holiday. With the cruise over we were transferring to a hotel in Sorrento. Given the number of people that are getting on, getting off it is a real coordinated affair involving different coloured tags and departure times. We were off at midday …
Continue reading “Italy ‘19 – Day Eight – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here*”
Another day and another mooring in some soulless cargo port. This time it was Piombino in Italy. However, for us, this was to be the gateway to a day out to Siena. Unfortunately this meant setting the alarm for 6am to ensure that we were ready to get our coach for the two hour drive. …
Another non-Italian destination today. France this time in the form of the island Corsica. The distance between Italian Sardinia and French Corsica is apparently only 12km and so it is no surprise that Corsica at one time was part of the Italian empire. This was lost when the Corsicans had enough of Italian rule and …
The nice thing about a cruise is that you go to bed in one place and wake up in another so there is never any chance to get bored as I certainly would otherwise. Today we woke up in Cagliari in Sardinia an island we’d never visited before. The weather through the window didn’t look …
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We love Sicily having been coaxed there for a holiday a few years back by the beauty of it on the Montalbano mysteries. To date we have only done the eastern coast and so we were keen to visit the capital Palermo in the North West. It was an easy escape from the boat today …
Yes, yes, yes I know that Malta isn’t part of Italy but it would just have been way too complicated to include all the countries we are visiting in the title. Anyway, today was our first port of call and it was indeed Valletta in Malta. When we left Naples there were a number of …
Continue reading “Italy ‘19 – Day Three – Valletta & Mdina, Malta”
On every cruise we have been on and this is our fourth, the first full day is spent at sea. I am not sure why that is necessary and why we can’t just sail straight to the first port of call over night. I say this because the captain of the ship revealed last night …
This holiday seems to have been a long time coming, mainly because we booked it so long ago. I mean a long, long time ago. More than a year ago. So the build up has been excruciatingly long. Anyway, we are on our way finally. First stop is Bristol where the flight leaves from. I’ve …
A couple of years ago we went to Progress Theatre’s annual Writefest. This is an evening of seven short plays written and performed by local and up-and-coming actors. As you can imagine there is real mixed bag of plays on offer and the quality and therefore the enjoyability is also variable. This time out the …