- Ancient sites
- Art
- Day trips
- Entering France
- Festivals
- Fond Farewells
- Food
- Food markets
- Forests-Mountains-Streams
- French B&Bs
- French Chateau
- French Churches
- French Cities
- Friends joining us
- Gardens
- Getting to know the locals
- good beach – sea views
- Guided tours
- Hop on-Hop off
- Italian B&Bs
- Italian Festivals
- Italian Hairdressers
- Italian long stay
- Italian Towns
- Learning to cook the Italian way
- Local History
- Medical Emergencies
- Mountain Roads
- MUSEUM VISITS
- Pretty villages
- Restaurants
- Tourist Town
- Travel
- Travelling through
- Uncategorized
- Visiting friends
VIVIEN ALIGHTS FROM A BATTERED COACH – EAGER TO EXPLORE
2nd October. VIVIEN TAKES A ROUND ABOUT ROUTE. Vivien had already stayed a week in Napoli (Naples) to explore that town; also Pompeii and Herculaneum. We feel that Herculaneum gives a quicker, less tiring overview of domestic living in Roman times and Vivien agrees. I have to point out that Pompeii shows more […]
CRACO – PART 1 OF EXPLORING BASILICATA WITH VIVIEN
4th October. VIVIEN’S FIRST DAY TRIP I’ll start with CRACO because I cannot remember the exact order of the trips we made with Vivien; so here goes, with apologies to Vivien if the dates don’t fit. CRACO had grabbed her interest when I sent her a download about it before our holiday started. […]
SMALL TOWN APPEAL IN APULIA ENCHANTS
CASALINI – SMALL TOWN APPEAL IN APULIA. 5th October: THE TRULLO CAVE An expert in many craft fields, our holiday visitor Vivien likes to know how things work. To introduce her to some of the small towns in Apulia – instead of revisiting Alberobello, which we felt she would find ‘too commercial’, we […]
MATERA AT SUNRISE – WE SEE WILD BOAR!
I CHICKEN OUT OF CROSSING THE GRAVINA. Before Vivien’s flight back to the UK on 12th October I insisted that she and Graham have a day to themselves where they could explore Matera further. Much as I longed to go into and around that ancient troglodyte city I knew that all those steps […]
