honeymoon

The most beautiful Starbucks around? Opéra in Paris. Eurostar at 18:43 - all the museums are closed on a Tuesday! DOH!! So, we are doing some major time killing coffee shop hopping.

Good evening everybody! So, it has come. The final night abroad. Thank you all so much for reading whilst we’ve been away - all the emails have been really positive and I think you’ve all had fun reading. I know I’ve certainly had fun writing these posts, and it saves a lot of explaining to you all over the coming weeks! You were there, with us! This morning we pulled into Paris on the second of our two sleeper trains. It took a grand 15 hours from Berlin meaning we arrived at 11.15am. It took

This post is brought to in association with Starbucks “providing travellers the world over, with free unlimited wifi!”. Of all the places we’ve visited Berlin is my favourite. The air is clean. The sun was shining. It wasn’t too hot or too cold. The people have all been lovely. The public transport works. The traffic is quieter than you could imagine for a capital city. But best of all, you feel safe. Everywhere we’ve gone - and we’ve gone all over the city in the last 2 days, we’ve felt as saf

Innsbruck is a lovely place and Austria has welcomed us with a mistake in our favour! The hotel accidentally confused my current booking with my old cancelled one (for the same hotel, only a more expensive room). At check-in, they put us in the more expensive room only realising after they’d done so. Meaning, we get a palatial sized room (with sofa, and lounge area) for the cost of a standard! WIN WIN! To add to that, the housekeeping staff had folded our bedding into a heart shape (I put honeym

We are currently stopped in Brenner station. 4500ft above sea level. There is an important mountain pass goes through the area and the motorway E45 runs along some very impressive bridges. Some almost 1km long! Anywho, this is the last 9 minutes we will spend in Italy so I guess we say – CIAO?!

Good morning chaps! We are back to the trains today. Our mission, if we choose to accept it: Travel 700km in one day using almost only public transport. Challenge accepted! (How I met your mother reference - it’s a tv show grandma!). Ok so we rolled out of bed just before Dawn at 6am this morning. Made ourselves some breakfast with bacon, eggs and cereal - accompanied by a truly beautiful sunrise. We packed up the remainder of things, said goodbye to the mouse and braved our way up the drivew

We are two tired kids tonight. Been travelling near enough non stop since 10am this morning. But! We are pleased to report that we have made it to our friends (thank you Apricot, Suzy and Alistair!) beautiful house in Tuscany. As ever Italy had one more surprise to throw at us when we were trying to hire the car. I’d made a booking with Sixt to rent a fiat 500 for the next 3 days. After standing in a queue of one person for 30 minutes! We finally reached the front. The guy had our reservation

Wow whee!! What a morning!!! We’ve endured a thunderstorm, rough seas, cancelled boats and finally we have made it back from Capri to Naples for our Rome connection. Let me explain.. We were rudely awoken at 6am by a belter of a thunderstorm which lasted for the next 4 hours. As we were overlooking the sea we could see the storm drifting towards us. I took a video which is quite cool – and if I can will upload later. We got bored of stormwatching and went back to sleep rising at 9am for breakf

Hi chaps, Tonight will be the last proper entry until we hit Innsbruck on Thursday night (all being well) as we are entering radio blackout zone for the next 3 days! Today is the middle of the holiday! What a honeymoon it’s been so far. Today only added to our list as we ticked off Pompeii’s sister site Herculaneum. It was again very hot and we got round the whole site (slowly) in about 2 hours. After this we jumped on a Ferry from Napoli to Capri, found our charming little hotel that overloo

I’ve been looking forward to today for years. We went to see Roman Rome. The Forum, The Colosseum and the Pantheon. Once again the temperatures soared to 34C! It’s quite draining to run around Rome at those temperatures let us tell you!! We caught the Metro to San Giovanni, the Pope’s Cathedral and worked our backwards through the City - almost heading home all day (by a very indirect route) ending up at the Spanish Steps (Spagna Station). The Pope’s Cathedral was pretty well decorated with hu

81 hits a day! Wow - that’s a lot more than I was expecting. Thank you all for reading!!! Today was a lazy day. All we did was catch the train from Florence to Rome. We are staying in a lovely two floor apartment in Rome - just around the corner from the Vatican. I’ll write a bit more about yesterdays tour tonight as we have wifi again. We departed Florence at 8am headed for Siena - where every year they hold a horse race called the ‘Palio’ around the town square to decide something important

We are sat in the Firenze Santa Maria station awaiting our train. One observation we’ve noticed is that Dogs go everywhere with people here - why can’t we do that in England? I’d love to take Robbie to Sainsburys! Well maybe not sainsburys, but out and about with the looks of disgust if you step out of the local dog park “zone”. Today is hot - again. Forecast for 33C. I’m going to whinge, but it’s too hot! I’d give anything for a day back in sub 25c temperatures just to let my body “chill out”