I’ve recently returned from, as it’s become, my annual holiday in Italy. There is still so much in that wonderful country that I could see this become a permanent date in my diary – I hope so anyway. This year…
It is time to round up these blogs about my holiday on the Italian Riviera (see last week’s posts) but I can’t leave without giving you a small taste of the food even though I am no expert in these…
Awaiting my flight to Italy from London Gatwick. Genoa airport. On the beach at Santa Margaretha Ligure. Walking to Paraggi. Mediterranean blues and greens. Liguria is gentle with flowers. Cobbled streets of Portofino. Portofino lunchtime. Designer shops in Portofino. Portofino.…
Even though I have been lucky enough to have spent most of the last weeks abroad on holiday, first in Sicily and just recently the USA, I have been on a determined bid to get back into my martial arts…
It was a lovely clear Sicilian morning when I made the perverse decision to take a trip up Mount Etna. I began to wonder why as the coach zig-zagged up the narrow road through the lava-strewn lower levels of this 3323m (10,902.2…
Having Viking blood in your veins can be a disadvantage when travelling in hot countries. Over a thousand years ago, judging by some of the names on my family tree, Vikings married some of my Hebridean relations and left me…
I decided to go to Sicily for my holidays this year for a number of reasons. The sun, obviously, the sea too but there were other reasons. I can no longer imagine not going to Italy at least once a…
When I woke up the other weekend, I had forgotten that I was in Venice but the view from my hotel room soon reminded me. On my trip round Switzerland and Italy, I had come to Venice for the weekend…
I shall be going to Florence in less than a week and I am truly excited about it. I stayed in the peerless Italian city of Florence in January 2008 – it was my first visit even though I had…