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The Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast of Italy are a photographer’s delight. These five villages cling to narrow bays and steep hillsides between Porto Venere and La Spezia. Their vibrantly coloured houses, rocky seafronts and marinas full...
Clark Griswold has nothing on me – whatever could go wrong on this vacation, did. We chose to go to Sardegna (Sardinia) after our week in Tuscany, as we had a week to spare...
When you go to Naples there are two must do’s – Pompeii and Pizza. Naples is Italy’s third largest city after Rome and Milan, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the...
Another port, another tour. This time we used the company ‘Sicily with Mario’. He had good reviews on TripAdvisor and they were well deserved. Our driver was very accommodating, to the point that he...
Finding ourselves with a little time on our hands on the way back home from a country wedding, we allowed ourselves a little indulgence in our long-time hobby of wine tasting. The two areas...
Montenegro is one of those European places that I have always been curious about, being out of the main tourist drag. The wars in the former Yugoslavia crippled the tourism industry, but increasingly, with...
We’ve been to the Amalfi Coast twice now. The first was during a driving holiday in Italy and it was an unnerving experience for a number of reasons. I was driving along the freeway near Salerno,...
Without doubt, my favourite places in Italy are Venice, Tuscany, the Cinque Terre, Rome and the Amalfi Coast. In the last 17 years we have spent more than seven weeks exploring this fabulous country,...
About an hour’s drive north of Cairns, up the Captain Cook Highway, on a promontory between Dickson Inlet and the Coral Sea, you will find my favourite Tropical North Queensland town – Port Douglas....
Coach Tours / Destinations / England / United Kingdom
A Whirlwind Tour in England’s North East
May 29, 2022
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Destinations / England / Road Trips / United Kingdom
Getting back to my roots in Lancashire & Yorkshire
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