Tuesday 7th July 2015. It seemed that no sooner had I put my head down on the pillow, I heard the familiar tone of my iphone alarm tone which could mean only one thing... It was 4am and time to get up out of bed for what will be the first day of our extensive tour of France & Italy...a momentus journey 16 days long starting in Paris, travelling by train down to Milan, a couple of days by Lake Garda then on to Venice, followed by Rome and finally arriving in ...