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 […]
If you are looking for ways to recapture your youth, then a hike through the Avakas Gorge in Paphos should definitely be in your list if you are in the area! Pretend to be Indiana Jones or Lara Croft and explore this beautiful terrain, with boulders perched precariously between the canyon, huge birds circling overhead […]
I was utterly amazed at how incredibly beautiful the Pentland Hills are. Having travelled up to the Scottish Highlands and marvelled at it’s natural beauty, the lochs, the rolling hills covered in heather and the wildlife you can see in fields that go on forever, I would not have imagined that you can get a […]
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 […]