Day 23 and we wake up to a magnificent view from our hotel room. We look out over the lake with the mountains behind blurred a little by the early morning haze. After breakfast on the terrace (also overlooking the lake) we took a quick dip in the pool and then hit the road. Itinerary for today - lake Como via Bergamo, then on to Torino (Turin). Bergamo was very pretty, took a driving route via the old city on the hill and Tom Tom took us on a very interesting r...

Day 22: If you look at a map and see how far we have travelled in one day, you might mistakenly think that we'd had a rather slack driving day... However, I'm on a honeymoon with Jeremy Clarkson, ahem, Ben Gainsford, who has been really looking forward to driving along the Stelvio Pass (à la Top Gear). Adding an extra 3.5 hours onto our journey, we set off for Stelvio at nearly 2800m (second highest pass in the Alps). The drive to Stelvio National Park was beau...

So, after a few more days of idyllic rural isolation, we are back to the 21st century and the internet! Our last few days in Tuscany were spent relaxing in the sunshine (in fact it has been particularly hot - up to 38 degrees on Thurs & Fri), reading and cooking. We didn't even make it to Florence as planned, although there is so much to see there that it almost certainly deserved longer than a day trip. Next time... Saturday morning, I suppose that must be...

Day 19, our 6th day in Tuscany. After two days of doing nothing - well, sleeping, lazing by the pool, playing UNO, bananagrams and monopoly, eating, drinking and casual drives around the beautiful Tuscan hills - we went to medieval Siena. Siena is quieter than Florence, we're told, so you'll have no problems parking. Wrong. After a car park hiccup (driving over enormous curb towards pedestrian exit) we then took a wrong turn and ending up driving down increasing...

So, day 14. Can't quite believe we have been married for a full 2 weeks. Still feels like our wedding day was a wonderful dream! After a second strange breakfast on our terrace we packed up and departed from the hotel in Manorola. Fortunately we were allowed to bring the car down to the hotel so as to avoid lugging our bags back up the massive hill! Less distance to cover today so decided to give the autoroute a miss and take the coastal road down to Pisa. It ...