There is something romantic about a city built on 120 islands, 150 canals and 400 bridges (approximate numbers). It’s like stepping back in time to where there are no cars but only foot traffic and of course boat traffic. You have the gondola men in their horizontal stripped navy blue shirts and stubby straw top-hats…
It feels like a treat the days when we only have a couple of hours to travel to our next destination. I like train travel but once you have done a few days of 6+ hours traveling over a 2-month period it starts to wear you out a bit. The train journey from Florence to…
Umbria; the province of hilltop towns and rolling green vineyards. It truly is a hard life backpacking around this part of the world. I mean how do we decide which vineyard or hilltop town to go to?? We finally settled on the boss of Umbria, otherly known as Perugia. The train ride from Roma was…
We managed to find a train that would take us straight from Salerno to Rome, which was fantastic (that is after we made it through the horrendous bus ride from Amalfi to Salerno!). We decided to make a seat reservation and thank-fully we did as the train was packed – a seat makes the 3-hour…
I have to admit I was incredibly excited to embark on the Italian capital – I mean, all that good food and marvelous wine – who wouldn’t??? We had only booked 2 nights in Rome due to most of the affordable hostels being full booked, so we figured if there was more to see we…
To be honest we were pretty much stopping in Bulgaria to break up the journey to Greece. To get to the Bulgarian capital it was a total of 13-hours travel; Brasov-Bucharest & then Bucharest-Sofia. The first part of the journey was rather forgettable as it was early in the morning, the seats were comfy and…
Yesterday I had my first Gold Class movie experience when I went to see The Avengers. It is an awesome idea: lazy boy seats, food and drink brought to you at different points throughout the movie. What more could you ask, it’s the ideal way to watch a movie. As I was sipping on my…
To be honest, I don’t know a whole lot about English wine other than drips and drabs on some of their sparkling wines that have emerged on the international wine scene over the last few years. My first lesson was not making the mistake of calling it British wine, which is wine made in Britain…
Being a female, I have that tendency to like pushing through the crowds to browse stall after stall at the local markets. Friday it was Camden markets browsing the 50’s pinup girl inspired clothes; Sunday it was the local farmers market to gather ingredients for a Sunday roast and Saturday it was the famous and…