A day in Xativa with Vicki
2024年5月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
South of Valencia we caught up with Christchurch friend Vicki Johnson
Checked out the local Castle, dates back several hundred years BC
Interesting to learn that Valencian’s speak a unique dialectもっと詳しく
Begur, Spain
2024年5月26日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Home Exchange Apartment with Pool (Communal for 11 homes)
A Day exploring the beaches of the Costa Brava
Scary seeing where some the houses are being built on the edge of cliffs
Hanging out withもっと詳しく
Girona Day Trip
2024年5月29日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Day Trip to Girona -
Oliver Tours found narrow streets in the old town (trying to find a park)
Doskiwis Brewing - Produce a wonderful array of beers - Hops from New Zealand
Started by two kiwis -もっと詳しく
Marignane, near Marseille
2024年5月30日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 25 °C
Leaving Begur was eventful. A major crash on the motorway had everyone diverted to nowhere - anywhere . Nobody indicating where to go and the GPS was useless - there are unsealed farm roads - noもっと詳しく
Thinks: ‘Is a 4euro bottle twice as good as a 2euro bottle?’ [Ann & Michael Hutchi]
Cheeky number with flirtatious overtones but ultimately lacking real class. The wine, I mean. [Ann & Michael Hutchi]
Aix en Provence
2024年5月31日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Busy tourist wise.
Lovely buildings - very clean city and well thought out
We chose to go on a city tour with an electric train much easier than driving ourselves.
旅行者Good move going on a train tour. You learn so much without the agony of having to navigate in foreign territory
fabulous touring, Olivers! Been lying here catching up on you. Beautiful photos - love the wee towns and narrow streets. Lovely blue skies! We did ballet today. Without you. Again. [Laurel]
Marseille
2024年6月1日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Impressive Cathedrals -
With the hundreds of Tourists it reminded us of Le Mont -St Michel on a previous holiday.
9 Million inhabitants and loads of cars and trucks on the motorways surrounding itもっと詳しく
La Spezia, Italy
2024年6月2日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
After 6 years we returned to a wonderful BnB in La Spezia .
Piero - the landlord had even bought us bus tickets to go to Portovenere - down the road from where we were staying .It is notもっと詳しく
Lucca, Italy
2024年6月5日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
On the wish list to visit - so as we were heading to Tuscany stopped off to have a walk around and of course some lunch.
Could have spent a lot more time there - Gerald was pleased to see Puccini atもっと詳しく
Hu Camping Village in Tuscany, Italy
2024年6月5日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Norcenni Girasole Village - in the Tuscan countryside -
2006, with Mel, 2018 and again 2024 - Wonderful place for a break - Pools, restaurants,
There were numerous groups like a few hundred ebikers,もっと詳しく
Greve in Chianti, Italy
2024年6月8日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Short distance from the camping village we explored the sights and tastes of the Chianti area.
On The Road To Rome, Italy
2024年6月9日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Tuscany to Rome -
Our Peugeot decided to play up and on the navigation panel it suggested we get to a service garage asap - Unfortunately it was Sunday morning and it is Italy - nothing open.もっと詳しく
Hu Camping Pini - Fiano Romano,
2024年6月9日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Fiano Romano north of Rome
The Hu Camping Village was very empty and quiet the rush comes in July
Roma at Night
2024年6月14日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Decided to go on a Rome by Night Tour -
A great guide very knowledgeable - Having seen these sights previously it was interesting to see them in a different light - So many people.
Bastia, Umbria Between Puglia & Assisi
2024年6月14日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Getting out of Fiano Romano wasn’t simple the GPS had us heading back into Rome to get on the Ring road to head north.
Slight detour to check out Orvieto - Another lovely Tuscan hillside villageもっと詳しく
San Clemente
2024年6月16日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
One of our favourite spots in Italy. We stayed with Ana again - 6 years on and we just picked up like old friends.
Out one side of the house is fields of olive trees and vineyards on the other.もっと詳しく
Ancona Italy, to Split Croatia
2024年6月19日〜20日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Overnight ferry From Ancona in Italy to Split in Croatia.
Slow uneventful smooth crossing -
Split - Croatia
2024年6月20日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
When in Croatia - eat seafood. This was a meal Gerald had (not Pauline!)
Walked around the old town seeing the various sights
Diocletians Palace, St Domnius Cathedral, Markets
Day trip out to theもっと詳しく
Dubrovnik
2024年6月23日 ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Dubrovnik - Spectacular trip into Dubrovnik - Loved all the various architecture of the engineering of the bridges
Picked up Helene & Cameron from Airport and started our gastronomic 4 days togetherもっと詳しく
Dubrovnik continued
2024年6月24日〜27日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
A few more pics from our time with Helene and Cameron - Great to catch up and enjoy the sights and tastes of Dubrovnik.
Zadar, Croatia
2024年6月27日, イタリア ⋅ 🌩️ 30 °C
Zadar - We used these few days to prepare ourselves for the sailing - Finding Home Exchange was difficult in Croatia so we chose Booking.com and were delighted with the apartment -
#Funkytours was aもっと詳しく
#FunkyTours - Kornati National Park
2024年6月29日〜7月2日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Welcome Aboard - “What Else” (The name of the catermaran)
Sailing for a few day around the Kornati National Park
First night stopped at an island that had 2 restaurants - all generator run andもっと詳しく
Sailing in the Adriatic Sea
2024年7月1日〜2日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
The photos show it al - Beautiful weather, great company fellow passengers and crew -
Good food provided by company - Well done FunkyTours
Trieste, Pula & Rovinj
2024年7月3日〜5日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Leaving the sailing and Croatia behind we drove north west to Trietse.
My Dad Bob had been there at the end of the war - wish I had remembered more info from him.
We spent a day checking out theもっと詳しく
Slovenia
2024年7月5日〜7日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Heading to Slovenia on a beautiful July morning. By the time we reached Lake Bled -the town was heaving with tourists and vehicles - no where to park so we took the obligatory photo of Lake Bled andもっと詳しく
Back into Italy with Home exchange
2024年7月7日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
As most of our trip was planned months ago it was some last minute organising of somewhere not too far to drive and a place we could experience living like the locals.
On the way to Castelnova ne’もっと詳しく
Great views. Lots of driving. Nice places to stay- might be a little more comfortable than a tent. Looks hot enough to check out the beach there- some good cycle lanes in that city too. [Ann & Michael Hutchi]
旅行者
Wow….great design
Good to see you are still enjoying every day. [Julia]