All set to go! Jane looks keen!
5 kwietnia 2023, Walia ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
The time has finally arrived. The journey begins.
Why would you want to leave Newport?
5 kwietnia 2023, Walia ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
If we had any last minute doubts about going, the journey in the rain to the train station soon dispelled them. Why would you want to stay there, more like!?! 🌧️☔
First leg.
5 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Long, and almost problem free day. Everything was tickety boo until we reached our final destination..... Versailles Chantiers train station. From there it should have been, according to Google Maps, Czytaj więcej
Nice pad.
6 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
A bit like the UK in 2023, there was obviously a housing crisis in 17th century Paris. So Louis XIV decided to build his own pad. Didn't make a bad job of it, did he? And........ It's huge.
Of course, Czytaj więcej
Chez Lazare - Rue de Satory, Versailles
6 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Fabulous little French restaurant in Versailles. Place was buzzing and they cooked the meats on the grill inside the restaurant and in front of you. I had duck skewers in a pepper sauce whilst Jane Czytaj więcej
Slept with one eye open last night!
6 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ 🌙 9 °C
Started playing cards and I happened to win quite a few hands. All sorts of threats started coming my way, so slept with one eye open...... Just to be sure! 🥺
Beautiful Bordeaux - Day 1
7 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Great couple of days just strolling around this beautiful, old city. England and France fought over the right to control Bordeaux for centuries; and it's easy to see why..... It's stunning.
Also, it's Czytaj więcej
Bordeaux 2 - Saint-Emilion
8 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Simply wonderful afternoon spent visiting two wine making Chateaux, and the BEAUTIFUL village of Saint-Emilion. Oh, and we were forced to sample a few glasses of Grand Cru Saint-Emilion wine as well. Czytaj więcej
Spanish tapas - Can't help ourselves!
8 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
After our exertions trying to get through all the Saint-Emilion samples on offer this afternoon, we decided to venture back into Bordeaux for some food. We came across this Tapas bar (El Pata Negra), Czytaj więcej
Carcassonne
9 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Over night stop over as we make our way through France and towards Italy. Weather still being kind to us, although there are whispers of storm Noa approaching France and the UK shortly.
We have found Czytaj więcej
Morning coffee down by the river
10 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
On our way to the train station, heading to Nice, we killed a spare 45 minutes with a cup of coffee watching the boats on the river, using the "lock" system to move upstream.
Nice Nice
10 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Ok, so I realise it's an obvious choice of headline for this post. But it sort of sums up our first impression of Nice. It's just..... nice, that's all. But the architecture is interesting.
But our Czytaj więcej
Takes me back to my student days.
11 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Ok....... so......we are students again!
Takes me back to Crwys Road, Cardiff way back when (1978-82 to be precise).
I was planning on doing research for a book to write after this holiday....... Czytaj więcej
The real Nice
11 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
After being slightly underwhelmed by our first evening in Nice, our second day was wonderful. Found the 'Old Nice' in the morning and wandered around the market and coffee bars; in the afternoon we Czytaj więcej
Sestri - Weston-super-mare on steroids
12 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Have to hold my hands up here and admit to a mistake in dates. Plan was to go straight to La Spezia from Nice but I got my dates mixed up. Booked our place in La Specia for the following day so we Czytaj więcej
Train strikes force change of plans
13 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
As I have always said to Lissy and Emily, try to make the best out of every situation in which you find yourself.
So we arrived in La Spezia on the 13th for two nights, with a plan to spend the 14th Czytaj więcej
La Spezia Port
14 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
This was due to be our day to visit the Cinque Terre, but it was scuppered by the rail strike. So, what to do on a beautiful sunny day? We planned to take a boat trip to Portovenere, which we were Czytaj więcej
There is no world without Verona walls..
16 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Or so says Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. It is still debated as to whether they actually existed in real life. And if they were based on real people then they almost certainly didn't live in Verona. But Czytaj więcej
Side street restaurant
16 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
As is our wont, we sought out a "local" restaurant, rather than stick to the formulaic tourist places (all laid up, complete with slick salesman type of waiter to greet you.......you know the sort). Czytaj więcej
Lake Garda
17 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
You can't come to Italy and not spend a day on one of the lakes. We chose Garda as it is only a 20 minute train journey from Verona.
With snow capped mountains in the distance it was no wonder that Czytaj więcej
Trieste - Vienna by the sea
18 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Today's picture collection of old buildings and selfies comes courtesy of Trieste.
A completely different feel to other Italian towns, it has a Central European feel, deriving from it's history as Czytaj więcej
City of coffee..... And petrol pumps
18 kwietnia 2023, Włochy ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Ok, popped into a cake shop in the afternoon for coffee and cannoli. What else would you expect to see but an old petrol pump!
We had our coffee and cannoli, and then followed that up with some wine, Czytaj więcej
Pivka
19 kwietnia 2023, Słowenia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Some things on this trip are a given.......the grandeur of Versailles, the serenity of Lake Garda, or the bliss of drinking St Emilion Grand Cru. But every now and then a surprise comes along.
On our Czytaj więcej
A glitch in the matrix?
20 kwietnia 2023, Chorwacja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The most interesting thing about Rijeka was this building under refurb, with a drape over it to make it look like it is still there, as it was. I know it's not much, but that's it. Nothing else.
BUT, Czytaj więcej
I ❤️ Ljubliana
21 kwietnia 2023, Słowenia ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
OMG. We've only been here a few hours, but already we are in love. This place is unbelievable.
The people are lovely (and speak fluent English), the countryside is beautiful, the city centre is like Czytaj więcej


























































































































































































































































PodróżnikBrilliant.. the back packs as big as you Jane 😊
Podróżnik
Well done packing everything you need into a backpack. We’d need one back pack just for mikes shoes if we did this 🤣
PodróżnikHahaha.... Funnily enough, Mike admitted as much last week when we were discussing this. Guess what we are finding, though? We have too many clothes! I haven't worn some stuff yet and it's washing day on Tues. 😂