Venice (22 to 26 November 2022)
From Bardolino we caught a bus back to Verona, then a train to Venice. It’s low season. The weather can be foul, but we hoped the absence of crowds would compensate. As Henry James said…
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Verona to Lake Garda (14 to 22 November 2022)
Leaving Azerbaijan, we were looking for somewhere warm in Europe as the year tracked steadily through autumn. We had decided on Malta but was there somewhere closer for a quick hike beforehand? A random travel…
View PostPalermo (4 to 7 October 2019)
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything”. (Johann Goethe) Palermo is Sicily encapsulated. Founded by the Phoenicians in 734…
View PostNorth-east Sicily walk (24 September to 4 October 2019)
From Salerno on the Amalfi Coast we caught a train all the way to Catania in Sicily. When the train reaches the coastal port of Villa San Giovanni, it simply rolls straight onto a ferry…
View PostAmalfi Coast (18 to 24 September 2019)
The Amalfi Coast is the beautiful 50km stretch of Italian coastline on the southern shore of the Sorrentine Peninsula between the Gulf of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno. Sorrento Sorrento is built along…
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