Andy and Rachel's Travels Posts

May 24, 2013 / / Italy
May 23, 2013 / / Italy

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…

May 22, 2013 / / Italy

“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…

May 22, 2013 / / Italy

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…

May 18, 2013 / / Italy

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,…

June 21, 2012 / / USA Road Trip
June 20, 2012 / / USA Road Trip

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.…

June 19, 2012 / / USA Road Trip

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…

June 17, 2012 / / USA Road Trip

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…

June 16, 2012 / / USA Road Trip

The journey from Zion to Las Vegas was uneventful and a little monotonous along Interstate 15, across unchanging desert for the most part. However, as we approached Las Vegas the increase in the number of electicity pylons was really noticeable.…