Last year I celebrated my 40th birthday and I wanted to mark the occasion but wasn’t really sure how to do it. I knew I wanted to go to Italy and I thought perhaps a boutique hotel in Rome, but I’d spent my birthday there a few years before, so had to throw the net […]
If you are as fortunate as we were and get up there early in the morning for the castle opening at 10am, the light will be just right to get some truly spectacular photos over Lake Como. We are currently staying in Calolziocorte and we jumped on the train to Lecco, changed trains to Varenna […]
When it comes to travelling, we tend to choose accommodation that is economical, be it an Airbnb apartment or a great hotel deal we’ve seen online. This isn’t because we’re penny pinchers, but simply due to the fact that we want to stay in places longer, and if you’re accommodation isn’t draining your bank account, […]
It seems like all of a sudden, Rome is a Mecca for vegans. Not only do the supermarkets carry some fantastic vegan friendly ranges, but restaurants are catching on too with vegan specific menus that have a great selection, not just a garden salad like some places we will not mention! It doesn’t seem that […]
So, it’s just before 8 in the morning, the sky is blue, the birds are singing, the dogs are barking and the Italian countryside awaits us. I don my trusty pink starburst yoga pants and my all weather jacket and we hit the road for our trek of the holiday the Giro dei condotti. I’m […]
Last week, we arrived in Rome around 1:45pm having got the train from Ciampino to Termini. We’d already booked our night in an apartment suite just next to the Vatican, so we decided to walk from Termini, straight down Via Cavour, which eventually spits you out between the Colosseum and Vittorio Emanuele monument. Having flown […]