Uni is back! Semester two started recently and after a blissful four weeks of being blissfully unmolested by looming assignment deadlines I was back to feeling very happy about my decision to return to study. How things change! At the end of semester one I was considering stopping study after a struggle balancing study under …
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The end :-(
We returned home over the weekend. Long haul flights are a special kind of bullshit and I don’t feel much like reliving the discomfort and tedium of it all except to say that Bitti was very well behaved and aeroplane food is the pits. We flew with Qatar and had a 14-hour stopover in Doha, …
Final destination: Milan
The blogging has fallen a little behind our actual progress. Writing this from my own lounge room, surrounded by the detritus of our suitcase while Bitti sleeps like it’s not nearly 11 am. Milan was our last stop. We spent two nights there in a pretty dodgy hotel near the central station. We rode the …
Venezia: not at all like in The Tourist (don’t watch that, btw)
The train ride to Venice from Bergamo was a little fraught. It was a 3.5-hour journey with two six-minute transfers between busy regional trains. Italian rail seems to love keeping platform options open, we had found that often platofrm numbers weren’t announced until minutes before the scheduled departure time. But this time we got caught …
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Bergamo: dogs and all the pastries
I risked my breakfast by deciding to take the ferry direct from Bellagio to Lecco rather than adding an extra train leg from Varenna. I have’t been able to tolerate boats since a scuba diving decompression stop disaster a decade ago. I even get motion sick on the bus home from work! But Bitti and …
Beautiful Bellagio
Our accommodation is right next to the Melzi Villa Gardens. Melzi was a super rich dude (there’s a lot of those around) who was into trees and stuff. The villa is right on the waterfront and is now surrounded by a wonderful garden with trees from all over the word, ponds, statues and very sloping …
On again, to Como
Our next destination was Lake Como, Bellagio specifically. The most beautiful of the lake towns, we had heard great things and were looking forward to seeing the famous water + mountain views. And maybe George Clooney? This meant another long day of travelling after my early morning interview, starting with the short trip back to …
Riomaggiore
We made it to our final joint destination! The journey here was a tad arduous, starting at 8.30 and ending just before dark. It began with the car drive back to Florence, where we dropped R and Bitti off at the tram stop with the bags, then drove around to the car drop off point. …
Farewell Tuscany
This holiday is passing terrifyingly quickly. I can’t tell you what we did on which day, but somehow we have left Tuscany behind and are now in Cinque Terre. I think what happened is we ate a lot of very good Italian food, drank a lot of delicious wine, and slipped into a time portal? …
At home in Tuscany
We regretfully left Florence by taking the tram to the airport and then walking a needlessly circuitous route across three lanes of traffic to the hire car pick up point. Picking up the car was quite simple, although we did not get the model we had booked, it was small enough to navigate the narrow …
Two Little Travellers 