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Naples revisited
It was a joy to revisit Naples for a couple of days en route to Puglia. This time it was around 6 weeks later in the year, with finer weather and the scent of Spring in the air.... An early morning flight from Luton was straightforward. The €10 euro per head (30 minute) Alibus journey from outside the airport to the port – not only had us feeling like old hands, it saved us the extra €30 euros we had spent on a taxi last time. We decided against the more upmarket neighbourhoo
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Taste of a place - Naples
We'd never given much thought to the saying "See Naples and die", until we headed on our much anticipated weekend there. People we knew...
May 10, 20247 min read


Taste of a place - Tuscany
We recently spent just over a week in what is a veritable paradise for pizza and pasta lovers such as ourselves. We trekked from Lucca to...
May 21, 20239 min read


Taste of a place - Bologna
Variously referred to as; “the fat one”, or “the belly of Italy” – Bologna has been firmly on our radar for a while… Events over the...
May 21, 20236 min read


Walking the Via Francigena
This is a post about our Via Francigena; why and how we did it. Of course, everyone has different reasons for embarking on such an...
May 2, 202315 min read
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