Daily Archives: 19/09/2017

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

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

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

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