Italia 2019: Day 4, welcome to Pitigliano
The trip here was a bit crackers – our driver, whose name escapes me, claimed to be fluent in Japanese and had very limited English. His Mercedes wagon had a GPS that seemed more...
Monthly Archive: September 2019
Italia 2019: Day 3 and a flying visit to Florence
As it turned out, we might have been better getting the agency to pick us up from Siena, because it’s closer to Pitigliano than Florence. It was lovely, however, to reacquaint ourselves with the...
Italia 2019: Day 2, and we walk our legs off seeing the city
We knew we had very little time in Siena, because the focus on this trip is the walk in the Tuscan Hills; but there was no way we were not going to see as...
Italia 2019: It’s Day One and we survive a bum-numbing trip across the world
It’s a wonder that we keep doing this to ourselves, and after more than a decade of economy travelling. Both of us suffering post-Term 3 stress and faced with a 14-leg followed by a...