Last week I posted a short blog. Today it’s a bumper version. It’s varied – I hope you enjoy it. The Alps.  There’s a motorway from Turin through the Alps, including an extremely long tunnel. It’ll set you down near Briançon.  The tunnel is pricey at €70 in a van.  It wasn’t the cost that […]

There are days when there’s no need to move on and the temptation to stay pulls strong.  We have a ferry in four days.  We could cover the distance in a morning.  Or we could see more and be out of the (Taormina) tourist trap. Out before it fills on Saturday morning.  We opt to […]

Caltagirone. Inland, the hill town of Caltagirone is a hotbed of ceramic talent.  The churches are topped with ceramic tiled domes. Every pillar, bollard and practically every wall has tiled decorations. Street planters are huge prettily painted pots. And while we’ve seen ceramics everywhere on the island, here the extravagance, colour and detail pushes the […]

Indulge me for a moment please. A quick excited paragraph that’ll mean nothing to those who don’t write: I often take notes, and write more personal thoughts on a little phone app that had no functionality whatsoever. It was what made the app attractive. You couldn’t send it anywhere, you couldn’t publish, you couldn’t copy, […]

La Mimosa. I enjoy pulling the blog together, it gives me a chance to review the past week. Often we marvel that the times I recount took place so recently. Last evening as I finished the post I was knackered. More tired than I can remember. We’d done a hard stank in hot sunshine and […]

In which we start walking further than we’ve walked before.  In which the great floral display of Sardinia blooms supreme. Channel crossing. Cruising out of Bonifacio the town towers over the sea. Houses perched so crazily close to the edge, many at risk of collapse. Every storm brings fear and danger. Only 12kms away, Santa […]