Tag: Italy
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Travel day: Venezia to Lake Bled
We decided to take the first of the two trains we could use out of Venice, because we’d had such a good evening last night. We still had time for a little wander, breakfast, and drawing before we took the train, and Gideon started to warm to the place a little more with that. This…
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Travel day: Roma – Venezia
Getting to Slovenia in a day would have been a mission, so we planned for a break in our journey, in Venice. What a hardship! That meant an hour or so in the pool yesterday morning, before we took the Metro to Termini, with enough time to browse and play in the Lego shop at…
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Rome
We’re well in to this Italian thing now. Early starts, late finishes, chilling out in between, regular application of pizza, pasta, pasticceri, gelato, and coffee. It works as well in Rome as it did in the Cinque Terre. I’m writing this a bit after the fact, I’ll go light on detail and heavy on pictures,…
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Travel day: Lunch in Pisa
We took yesterday really easy: swimming in a local spot that we’d not found before, reading and terrace time, a good lie in. That set us up well for a long travel day today. Rome’s pretty easy to get to, there’s a main high speed line from Genoa to Rome, going through La Spezia just…
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All the Cinque Terre
We started early, as promised/threatened. The walking path up and over the ridge wasn’t easy, but it didn’t really warrant the “Expert hikers only” signs. Definitely no good for flip flops, which there are signs about, but the main thing is to beat the heat. We carried eight litres of water for the 5km hike…
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Corniglia
We woke to the heat, late on our first morning in the Cinque Terre. We took it easy, no mission more strenuous than an amble to the village to find some food in the little shops. They were all suffering from an internet outage taking out the card machines… cash is king! The boys tried…
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Travel day: the Bernina Express and Cinque Terre
Four hours of breathtaking Alpine train travel. And then onwards to the Cinque Terre!