20/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 11 (Wednesday) – Rest Day
Today was a day of rest after the last busy few days. So couple of quick photos from exploring our new campsite. And of course this one of Helen feeding a campsite cat.Read more
Monthly Archives: September 2017
19/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 10 (Tuesday) – Sateano to Figline Valdarno
Change of location today moving from Sateano to our new site at Figline Valdarno. Started of with a drive around the northern part of the Val d’Orcia taking in the village of Pienza. Also took numerous detours in search of sone landscape images such as this one. It was then...Read more
18/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 9 (Monday) – Rome
Early start for the 0710 train to Rome giving a early arrival to enable a full days sightseeing. First stop for the day was the Vatican City.Museums, which involved a lengthy queue of 2 hours. Helen was heard to say to one of the “Jump the Queue” salesmen “It’s ok...Read more
17/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 8 (Sunday) – South Tuscany
A trip to the South/Sourh West area of our base for today. We started with a drive along the southern edge of the Val d’Orcia where as we left this area it was noted that the land became greener and more covered in forests. Our first place of interest tbat...Read more
16/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 7 (Saturday) – Rest Day
Well not much happened today,it was a day of rest with reading and copious amounts of coffee being consumed. A short walk was taken around tbe town of Sarteano was taken although not to much to seeRead more
15/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 6 (Friday) – Assisi
Today we went on a trip to Assisi which is outside the Tuscany region and located in Umbria. The route took us along the south shore of lake “Lago Trasimeno”. (sorry forgot to take photos on phone) through Perugia to Assisi which is about 50 miles from the campsite. Assisi...Read more
14/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 5 (Thursday) – Val d’Orcia
Today we took a drive around the designated UNESCO heritage area of Val d’Orcia this is a wonderful place for landscape images although not necessary at this time of year. We took a circular drive from our campsite taking in the village of Bagno Vignoni, this was a village with...Read more
13/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 4 (Wednesday) – Pisa to Sarteano
Started the day with another quick visit to the Leaning Tower for some final photos. We then made our way to Pisa Airport to collect a hire car.for our journey down to the southern Tuscany area. A leisurely drive down was taken with a stop at Volterra for lunch. Volterra...Read more
12/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 3 (Tuesday) – Cinque Terre
Todays adventure to the Cinque Terre coast/National Park started with a train journey from Pisa to La Spezia where we changed to a train thst runs along the coast. The mzin feature of the Cinque Terre coast are the five villages which are from south to north as follows; Riomaggiore,...Read more
11/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 2 (Monday) – Lucca & Montecatini
Our first full day in Italy had seen the floods near the hotel reside and enable us to access our local railway station, where we caught the train to Lucca. The first thing we learnt about buying a train ticket in Italy is don’t leave it to the last minute....Read more