One of the most exciting parts of Europe is to order bread with breakfast as Brot and as Pane at dinner. Today we crossed 5 minutes out of Füssen into Austria, on to Innsbruck for Lunch then a few hours further south through the Dolomites into Lago di Garda for our stop for the evening. We headed off headed up through Zugspitze and the enchanting alpine vistas. Somehow I screwed with the car satnav and avoided tolls all morning, whilst it meant an unnecessary h...

We woke late to a thundery grey and raining Venice. By the time we'd packed up and got our gear to the courtyard rain had stopped so we headed to Florian for a final breakfast. Delicious and the perfect way to farewell Venice - we were there to 12pm so I even got to have a final Venician bier.The vaporetto ride was bumpy enough to be exciting on it's own, add in the Disney anticipation and we were all jumping out of our skin. In no time we were clutching ...

Smashing weather again allowed us to have breakfast overlooking a canal in the morning, followed by a Gondola ride around the Rialto side of the island The kids and I headed off to check out the Campanile tower while Gab had some shipping time only to see a massive queue 5 times larger than the day before. We flipped our plans and queued for the Bascilica. With the Sunday morning service going on we headed up the STEEP steps to the museum halls and terraces.Above...

We dropped an hour or so trying to launder in our room, before giving up and packing ourselves off to the laundromat. Through windy alleys we found our way to a little Laundromat all set up next to a pizza bar. Two litres, three pizzas, a vodka, two dupio macchiato's and two gelatos later the laundry was done and so were we :)The weather was fantastic all day, from what I could lake out from the news we're in the middle of a "Super Luca" leading to rising...

I called too much shopping on day 5 of the trip and opted to start the morning trying to send a package back home. I scored a carton from foot locker the night before but couldn’t track down a packing tape and a marker no matter where I tried. In the end we improvised with bandage strapping tape and biro - think it will make it home?We headed off to Verona, a 2 hour drive from Milano. The Garmin got us lost again so this time I trusted google maps to naviga...