Me again ! We finished up Rome with a lovely meal in a typical trattoria and a day spent in the gardens of the Villa Borgese (it was great as it was a carnival day and the park was full of children in fancy dress, one little girl had a cute flower petal hat !) and then a walk through the Piazza del Popolo and onto one of the museums that had a really interesting display on all the pictures from National Geographic over the last 125 years. Tuesday morning we we...

Hello all So, we thoroughly enjoyed our luxury house sit in Italy, and have now moved on to Rome. On our first afternoon we had a little sunshine and got to see the Trevi fountain (very impressed), Spanish steps (not so impressed as the fountain was closed off with scaffolding), the Pantheon (great architecture) and loads of Piazzas as well as some pizza and gelato (not as good as Verona) Yesterday started sunny but within an hour it was raining and it chucked...

Ciao ! Hope you are all well, not tooooo drowned out with all the rain. If it's any consolation, we've also been having plenty of rain over here too and we had an amazing rainbow yesterday where you could see both ends across the valley. We haven't been up to much, hence no blogs, but we have now moved up to the main house (the 'big' house as we call it) for our proper house sit as the owners are now off sailing for a couple of weeks. We went into Perugia last ...

Hello All Not too much news from here as we are having a lazy ol' time of it at the moment. The house is great - very big, warm and with running water and a big, professional style kitchen. I managed to buy lamb in the supermarket and cooked a delicious roast in red wine on Sunday (ahhhh, it was heaven) - Gary, I know you love a lamb update !! We've also had some delicious fresh trout and plenty of antipasti - I have discovered a strange love of anchovies in vi...

Hello All We are now at our house sit in Perugia, where we will be on / off for the next 6 weeks. After Sorrento we drove up to stay at Norcia which is on the edge of the Mount Sibillini National Park. We both loved Norcia, which is a medieval walled city and is famous for it's cured meats and truffles. The hotel we stayed in was from 1850 and has been passed down from generation to generation. On the first night it was really damp and foggy and we took a spooky...