- 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
MORE MARTINA FRANCA – MORE BASILICATA
14th October MORE GOOD FOOD – WHERE IS THIS WONDERFUL DELI-CAFÉ? Graham and I went back to Martina Franca to explore it further. There is much to enjoy there if you love history and quaint old buildings. We found a great little place with more good food for our lunch. I wish I […]
IRSINA AND IT’S FEISTY SAINT
IRSINA 16th October: “Let’s have a look at this place called Irsina,” I suggested, pointing to an illustration in a booklet we’d been given. So we got ourselves together and set the SatNav, only to discover that the turning to Irsina was literally just up the road. We had not often gone along it […]
HOSPITAL A&E IN SOUTHERN ITALY.
October 17th, 2016. HOSPITAL A&E VISIT – IN MATERA WHILE ON HOLIDAY (APOLOGIES THAT BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THIS POST, THERE ARE NO PICTURES. WE HOPE THAT THE CONTENT ALONE WILL INTEREST YOU.) Any hospital A&E (Accident and Emergency Dept.) is not that place one wants to be when on […]
RAINY DAY DISCOVERIES
RAINY DAY REJOICINGS! If it rains on your holiday in Italy, do not be put off! Here is what happened when my bad leg was nearly healed and we took off one gloomy morning. It got worse; heavy skies, pelting rain. But it turned out to bring us some of our best memories of […]
