Six days since my last blog entry!! Looks like I owe you an apology - sorry, I will try to be more regular from now on. Today is the day I alluded to in one of my earliest blogs, the most difficult day of the trip - yes, my lovely wife flew home to Australia today. I will spare you most of the emotional stuff but suffice to say I am having some difficulty overcoming inertia today. I have been travelling for all of June and now three quarters of July and must con...

Yes, here we are in downtown Venezia! The signs on the way in said "turisti porte" and they weren't wrong- the tourists are very plentiful, loud, impatient and hungry for internet access! the computer here I thin k is as old as the city - certainly notfast. In our usual fashion however, we managed to meet a lovely couple from Somerset in UK, also travelling on a bike and enjoyed a great evening swapping yarns on the waterfront in Venice, over the most ...