Photographs of Monterosso, Le Cinque Terre, Italy

At the start of June, I spent a long weekend in the company of friends and my family down in the stunningly beautiful Cinque Terre area of the Liguria coast in northern Italy. I took a few photographs of Monterosso, one of the Cinque Terre, while the rest of the group lounged around on the … [Read more...]

Knowing Italy – Le Cinque Terre

When I came to Italy well over ten years ago, I was not really aware of all Italy had to offer.  I knew of the legendary big three Italian destinations: Rome, Venice and Florence, and, purely as a result of having seen the photographs of a colleague, I was aware of the stunning beauty of the Amalfi … [Read more...]

Crystal Ball Gazing – Techno Travel

Recently I've been contacted by two emerging new travel sites - Volette.com and So Much World. Both are very interesting, but quite different in their takes on travel. Volette is perhaps more aimed at the business traveller, but not only, whereas So Much World is more like an on-line version of my … [Read more...]

Roccaraso Ski Resort, Abruzzo, Italy – Skiing off the beaten piste.

Roccaraso in Abruzzo, Italy

I have several friends from the south of Italy, but I was rather surprised to learn that one of them, Ciro, is an avid skier, who spent his ski holidays not far from Naples. I imagined that he must have made annual pilgrimages for ski holidays to northern Italy to learn to do his thing.  He … [Read more...]

Summer Hols 2007, part 3.

Sorry about the time it took me to get round to writing about this - I got carried away on other stuff. Seeing as the weather had been holding up, towards the end of week one of our Tuscany 2007 holidays we decided to go for a day-long boat trip (35 Euros, with lunch, I think it was) along the … [Read more...]

Summer Hols 2007, part 1.

Yes, I know it is a mite unoriginal for an Englishman to holiday in Tuscany seeing as part of the area has even earned the nickname 'Chiantishire' as a result of the numbers of Britons that frequent the area. But you can't really blame them, the area is beautiful, the wine good and, on the whole, … [Read more...]

Tuscan summer and socks.

First, apologies for not having mentioned that I was off on my hols for three weeks. I did not say anything for a reason, but thinking about it now, my reason was possibly not a good enough excuse. Anyway , too late now. My summer, as you will have guessed from the title, was spent in Tuscany. … [Read more...]

Back from Genoa

We spent the weekend down in Genova. This meant other half could see her mum and dad, and soak up a few of the sun's rays with a friend of hers. Sunbathing has never really interested me. Firstly, it burns my fairish skin, and secondly I find it downright boring. So, while other half was roasting … [Read more...]

Durham

This is Durham, a city in north eastern England which boasts a castle, university, river and a cathedral, and lots of Italian restaurants somewhat surprisingly. It was a cool and wet day when this photo was taken. I have played with the RGB colour curves to get the photo to look a little brighter … [Read more...]

Back to Italy Again

We got back to our appartment in Milan at one on Tuesday morning and so we spent Wednesday recovering a little. Christmas had been spent with my parents in their house which is tucked away in one of the late Lord Lambton's estates near Chester le Street in the north of the UK (Lord Lambton died … [Read more...]

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