+++ Day eight and we are off in the vans again. We drive down to the coast then take a boat across the Ligurian Sea to Elba Island. Nic and I had bought some snacks (bread, cheese and yoghurt) before leaving Volterra so we have a picnic lunch sitting in the sunshine on the upper […]
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walk like an italian: days four & five – alpi apuane
+++ I am not glamourous in any way when I perform any kind of physical activity. Soon after I begin, my face will be bright red, shortly after that I start to sweat. So, given I am not usually glamourous, I was horrified to discover that on this first day of walking in the mountains, […]
walk like an italian: days two & three – cinque terre
+++ We leave Parma behind after breakfast on day two and drive to Porto Venere on the Cinque Terre coast. Here we stop for lunch and I buy some cheese + a small olive wood handled cheese knife (which proves to be extremely handy during the course of our Italian adventures). After lunch our first […]
walk like an italian: day one – parma
+++ We have just spent 10 days in Italy and I’m struggling to find the words to describe the experience. It already feels like months ago that we were met at the railway station in Bologna to begin the trip, even though only 12 days have passed since then. We were 15 people – from […]