Well. What a different trip to the one we were expecting! After picking up our shiny new camper (only 15,000km on the clock) we headed down the A1 to Naples, in the search of Pompeii & the crumpled remains of those unlucky citizens who got caught up in the blast of Versuvius. After pootling down for a couple of hours, we headed for the sign for Pompeii, as you would. This is where the lovely Italian roadsigns, or lack thereof, got us in a pickle. After driv...

Ciao Bello et Bella's! Bit of a change of plan - we have, for the next two weeks, abandoned the Tucan tour to do a bit of Jim & Jude sightseeing around Southern Italy - the tour only goes down as far as Rome! We've got ourselves a campervan & will head down to such sights as the Amalfi Coast, Sicily, Mt Vesuvius & Pompei & then head up north again to do Rome & Venice before joining the tour again through Croatia, possibly in Budapest if we t...

Helloooo! Greetings from Switzerland! Jude here, with our first blog - boy do we have a treat for you! Paris was just AMAZING, we went up the Eiffel Tower (unfortunately I got the wrong tickets & we had to walk up the stairs instead of going in the lift - Jim was NOT impressed!! We only made it to the First level before we admitted defeat The Mona Lisa was mobbed, but worth it - felt weirdly emotional at seeing it for real, don't know why Notre Dame ...