Researching the pass before leaving home we had read that it was ‘easy’ on a […]
Category: Italy
Through Mont Blanc & into the French Alps
To reach Mont Blanc we needed to climb up to 1200 meters on long winding […]
Heading West and into Aosta Valley
From Venice the plan was unclear. We spent an evening with maps trying to decide […]
Venice
La Serenissima. Beautiful and beguiling, Venice is by turns enchanting, eerie and infuriating. The bewitching […]
Soave and Vicenza
Soave is, for us, bottom-shelf wine. Why would you? It normally sits in supermarkets alongside […]
A visit to Verona
An Australian friend once said, when faced with our indecision about where to head next […]
L’Isola del Sole – the island of Grado
We set off early for Italy and drove on the free local roads south west […]
Tuscany: Certaldo, Monteriggioni, Lucignano & Pisa
The drive from Rome to the French border took us through the Lazio, Umbria and […]
Rome
From Naples and Pompeii, we broke up the 250km drive to the eternal city with […]
Crossing Italy in a day to Sorrento & Pompeii
Having seen Mum safely onto her return flight from Bari, and decided against our intention […]