Buongiarno 22/08/11 Never has a saying been so true as " the lights are on but nobodies in" we'd sat across the bay and watched the glittering lights of Portoroz, the coastal resort of Slovenia, So we arrived expecting something lively, But to no avail, The lights are on with some grand hotels, Africans selling wood carvings and not a lot else, I've had more of a fun time following Oonagh round a supermarket, Even teenagers sat around their tents at ni...

Buongiorno for the last time on this trip, At midnight on Sunday the Toscana our ferry for the 10hr trip to Sardina cast off, she is a huge open decked container type ferry, with an 8 storey accommadation block at the stern, Everyone was alotted a cabin or a seat, we at the lower budget end chose a 2nd class seat, a bit like an aeroplanes, But we got to the bar area on the early and jumped a large semi circular sofa seat and didn't move, the pair of us layed o...

Buongiorno everyone, Saturday 27/06/09 we start are journey to Sicily, the campsite had to close the road to allow us out as it is so steep with some horrors of hairpins, followed with a trip around the mountains , where locals were painting a zebra crossing by hand, then a bridge half washed away with a small warning triangle 10ft beforehand, topped by a shepherd with a herd of goats on a main road. All roads on Sicily are amazingly quiet where tunnels and br...

Buongiorno everyone, We decided to leave Croatia a week early after are Montenegro disappointment, Saturday with the tempature at 85 degrees we left on the 1230hrs ferry,1 hr into the 8 hr journey being an Italian ship all the bars, restaurants closed for a siesta and never opened again, half way across it started to rain, we sat inside in freezing aircon in vests & starving hungry, (When we get the ferry to Sardina we will be prepared). That night we stay...

Hi all Oonagh here ,it happened to be me who broke everything ,Dale didnt see the funny side when i said it was just teething problems! We have just set up the new camera so here are more photos, As you can see so far we have been through France Germany Switzerland Austria Liechtenstein and now in Italy unfortunately the weather hasnt been brill so when we went over alps it was overcast so pictures arent that fantastic. Went to venice by bus and boat its ver...