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...

Today we were lucky enough to take a tour with one of Trip Adviser's star tour guides for Mian, Giacomo.We started at the Duomo where he took us to the terraces to admire this beauty from above. Made completely from Marble, the Dukes of Milan donated a complete mountain to the building of the Duomo so that it could always be made and maintained in a common stone. We're pretty sure we saw the quary on the way to Milan yesterday. 400 years in the making it ...

Late last night I realised it was a four hour run to Bellagio. Sadly that meant not visiting Luzern again, or spending very much time in Lugano. Driving down through the Lepontine Alps the view to the peaks were buried under cloud - but what a vista - lush green hills and a dark grey skies left a picture of a winter Switzerland in my mind for the second time. We headed into the 17kn long Gotthard tunnel through a winter vista and emerged into brilliant sunlight a...

Emerson was in her element today, a buffet breakfast! With watermelon! A drizzly cold morning and a tour that doesn't start until after 10 meant she was in no hurry to finish up. Without mobile data we had to revert back to city maps posted on bus shelters, luckily it's all so well organised finding our way to the tour centre was dead easy.Getting to the tour kick-off point meant we visited one of the city biggest attractions on the way, Hauptbahnhof. Wit...