Collecting our Fiat Panda about 9.00am, we sat for a few minutes to ponder the way back to our home. Driving on the right hand side of the road, from the left hand side of the car, in peak hour traffic, through the labyrinth of one way streets in Florence weighed heavily on Laurens mind. She is our designated navigator, so the pressure was on ! After a few nervous giggles, we were on our way. I'm happy to say, we made it out of the city like locals, squeezing o...

Woke this morning to an email from AirBnB warning me of a scammer trying to lighten my bank account to the tune of 716 euro. We had in fact tried to book a home through AirBnB in Rome that sounded fantastic. When the guy contacted me by email to take the payment arrangements off the platform, some alarm bells started ringing. I know some places do like to deal directly, thus saving the AirBnB fees, but this guy wanted a money transfer. I received a very good (b...

Continuing with our 24hr bus ticket, we headed off to Piazzale Michaelangelo. This lookout, above its terraced gardens would have to be one of the best vista' of the City of Firenze. I could stand here for ages overlooking the many sights. We reboarded an hour later and headed to "Fiesole". Fiesole is an ancient city dating back to about 600BC. It still has well preserved Roman ruins, but today is the home to wealthy Florentines. Enjoying a light lunch, with b...

Having a sound sleep and recovered from the travelling the day before, we set out about 9.00am in search of breakfast. Apparently, this is a little early for most café's, so we had to endure croissant and apple strudel… again… Locating the hop on / off bus stop about 75m from home was an after breakfast bonus. Needing to put in some time with the forward planning part of the trip (we had nothing after Florence) meant a few hours on the Lappy to sort out ac...

Undies and other smalls freshly washed and dried on the rope strung between balcony pillars, we enjoyed another breakfast on the balcony before packing to leave. We are to make our way back to Split by ferry, before boarding a larger overnight ferry, and cross the Adriatic to Ancona in Italy. As we had a few hours to kill in between ferry's, we checked our bags into a luggage storage hut on the wharf (never seen so many bags stuffed in one little 1.5m x 2.5m hu...