We left the hotel at ten and lugged our cases through narrow Venice streets, over a couple of canals and rushed to board our boat to the bus station, but missed it by about 5 seconds. No-one waits for you…
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Firstly, I should apologize for yesterday’s rant. It must have been one of those days! Today, I promise to be positive and tell you about the delights of our Venetian trip. Today has been truely wonderful: a wander through the Doge’s Palace…
“Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice, there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.” – Henry James I disagree with Henry James. As far as I can see, the most disagreeable thing in Venice is the way the…
We arrived at Manchester Airport at around 11am on Monday 21 May and negotiated the usual queue at the EasyJet desk and wondered why they encourage you to check in online before you arrive, as if it’s going to make…
This time last year me and Rachel were looking forward to our USA roadtrip and a month travelling across the States. This year we are scaling down to a couple of weeks in the north and east of Italy. After the USA,…
Our USA road trip finally comes to an end today. Although we are sad that it’s over we are looking forward to getting home, as always. We feel like we’ve been here forever (in a good way) and when we…
We are now in San Francisco and staying, by coincidence, very near to the hotel we stayed in last time we were here. We’ve had a great day driving up Highway 1 and stopping off at places along the way.…
Having the whole day to travel to Monterey we decided to visit Santa Barbara, just across the mountains from Solvang, on the Pacific coast – approx 35 minutes away. We spent a few hours there, travelling around on the Downtown…
After a quick breakfast at Starbucks, we left the hotel in a taxi and headed for the airport to pick up our car for the last leg of our road trip. To be honest we weren’t sad to see the…