Today’s journey to Ravenna, took us through a part of Italy we have never before visited – the Po Valley. The landscape seemed most un-Italian to us. Most of Italy is mountainous, or at the very least hilly, but today…

Those of a nervous disposition may wish to read no further. This post may contain a photograph of my underpants (if you look very hard). The tedium that is Laundrygate dragged on into a third day. So dull is our…

The Cinque Terre are five villages which perch on the sea edge beneath impossibly vertiginous hills. Until recently it was not possible to reach them, except by footpath, and the communities earned their living from fishing and growing the steepest…

When I woke to the sound of drumming on Basil’s roof, like Keith Moon on acid (look it up kids), I knew we were not going to the Cinque Terre today. It was raining – heavily. A day of persistent…