Contrary to our productive start yesterday, Nic and I set no alarms and therefore woke at around 10am. Our leisurely start was a foreboding of what was to come, you guessed it, another chill day on another beach! The coastal views on the ferry to Positano, our chosen beach for the day, are sublime and …
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Day Twelve: Amalfi
We went running!! OK, so it was only a pathetic 2 mile effort, but even at 8am the temperature reaches 24 degrees. We were achey and slow to say the least, but nonetheless we got some endorphins kick-started and it was beautiful to run along the port. After a quick breakfast stop; coffee and croissants …
Day Eleven: Rome to Salerno
Our day started early to catch the 09.18 to Salerno. For this 2 hour trip, we treated ourselves to first class, still considerably cheaper than the UK with many more perks! The minute we arrived in to Salerno, we had a good feeling about the place. In the first 10 minutes of walking to our …
Day Ten: (Ancient) Rome
Thank goodness for our rest day on the beach. Little did we know that we would walk over 13 miles today alone! Our last full day in Rome was always going to be packed full and we set our sights on Ancient Rome; Palatine Hill, the Roman forum and the Colosseum. Unlike the Vatican Museums, …
Day Nine: Rome (but not really)
What Nic and I haven’t told you in this blog, is that our bodies are starting to feel the effect of all this touring. Between us we have one functioning body and are currently held together with painkillers, blister plasters and germoline (which seems to soothe just about everything)! So today we took a train, …
Day Eight: Rome
I promised to keep this post short and sweet so I’ll aim to do just that. Today in one word, exhausting. So much so, I write this from our apartment bed, Nic snoozing, air-con whacked up on high and all intentions to doze off soon too. Today was Vatican day. In all honesty, I’m not …
Day Seven: Siena to Rome
Suitcases packed (3 bottles of wine heavier!) and stomachs fed, we caught a taxi to Siena’s train station. To get to Rome, we would have two legs to complete our journey. Leg 1: Siena to Florence SMN – approx 1.5hrs. Leg 2: Florence SMN to Rome Termini – approx 1.5hrs. Having had problems on our …
Day Six: Siena
As promised, today involved wine and lots of it, but first a little more on the history of Siena… Everywhere you turn in this city, you will bump into a column with a figure of the she-wolf with Remus and Romulus. It became the symbol of the city after the sons of Remus, Sienus and …
Day Five: Siena
It was no coincidence that we chose to come to a smaller, sleepier city like Siena between our visits to Bologna, Florence and Rome. It was our fully-intended refuel point before the madness that Rome would entail. So this morning was strictly R&R time: late breakfast, sunbathing on the terrace, drinking beer and playing cards. …
Day Four: Florence to Siena
To make up for our careless attitude towards opening times and complete oblivion to Thursdays being a holy day, there was really only one thing we HAD to do before leaving Florence; climbing the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio. The views across the city speak for themselves and it really was the joining of dots, …
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