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1 August 2017
I woke around 0630 and was planning my stay by 0700. Ii worked through options for doing excursions by bus to see if it was feasible, otherwise I’d look at renting a car. I had hoped to make a trip to the centre of the island, Tejeda. This proved too difficult with infrequent buses. Stuffing […]
31 July 2017
I had trouble getting to sleep last night. With only some natural light and a one hour time change to the east, I woke up relatively late around 0800. I wasn’t hungry and delayed breakfast till around 1000 popping down to Pans & Company for a sandwich and coffee. Check-out for Hotel Pelayo was 1100 […]
30 July 2017
Exploring Lisbon I was up and out the door at 0730 for a wander down to Praca Comercio and the surrounding district inland, doing a loop taking in large city block and a few squares. It was an ugly start from my area and the bar patrons had littered the street with lots of plastic […]
29 July 2017
Above: Street scene in Algiers before I fly out to Lisbon. Making the most of my Algiers stay After an early breakfast I wanted to make the most of my short stay in Algiers and go to the casbah again. I took the metro as far as I could. I forgot that there was only […]
29 August 2016
In anticipation of our 5h night flight departing at 2300 to Reykjavik, we slept in and woke around 0800. We delayed our breakfast a little then packed up carefully. We wore our hot weather gear and packed our cold weather gear separately so we could change at the airport. As we checked out at 1100, […]
28 August 2016
Locals tell us this summer isn’t too hot but the forecast was for 36 degC. We decided on an early start to see the sights of the Vatican. We took the metro to near the Vatican and walked in the general direction to be astounded by the queue for the Museum. It had gone around […]
27 August 2016
Today we drove down to Rome to return our rental car and stay for a couple of nights. We left Staggia at 0900 and got to central Rome shortly after 1200. The Hertz rental car return wasn’t at Termini station. I had to go into the station to ask at the counter and they wrote […]
26 August 2016
We had it in our plan to visit Florence today and there was no reason to change that plan. It was an hour drive to get there and we managed to park about 10 minutes walk from Piazza Duomo. The crowds were pretty horrendous. It isn’t something we face very often as we travel to some […]
25 August 2016
The drive from Bologna to our next nightstop is only 2h but we took a bit of detour. We left the hotel around 1100 and drove to the small town of Badicorte, east of Siena (both further than our accommodation). Our friends Riccardo had asked us to drop in at his friend Marina’s restaurant (and […]
24 August 2016
We woke up to messages enquiring on our safety, as there had been an earthquake in central Italy. We wouldn’t have known otherwise until seeing the TV at the hotel breakfast. We left the hotel around 1000 for a 40 min drive to Ferrari’s other museum in Modena (rather than Maranello). Again, I sat outside […]