What a surprise Slovenia is, when we had set our GPS for Ljubljana we had know idea of what we were headed for. Slovenia has been more like Scandinavia than southern Europe, the cities have been clean and the countryside spectacular with snow capped mountains and lush green forests of pine and birch. The people too have been wonderful and we can't believe the diversity of nationalities we have seen and met in the caravan parks. While Ljubljana was really just ano...

It was great to get back on the bike and "on the road again", (Sung in your best Willy Nelson voice). So after spending a week in Lucca sorting things out and enjoying an Italian spring we said goodbye to our friends and headed for the hills. The mountains to the north of Lucca were like nothing we had seen in Italy before and we thoroughly enjoyed them, the forests were lush and the views spectacular. We were heading to Modena first and then onto Maranello to th...

After 9 weeks back home in Perth, Julie and I spent 28 hours traveling by plane, train and automobile back to our second home in Lucca Italy to find a country that was nothing like we had left. With good rains and sun in the later part of winter and the beginning of spring, everything is green and growing, all the trees now have leaves again and the grasses are two feet tall, and the air is cleaner with little to no burning off happening and the need for heating...

We have been home now for eight weeks and are heading back to Italy and our bike next weekend. We have enjoyed being with our family and friends and were able to attend the funeral of Julie's aunt while we were here. But while it has been good being home we are looking forward to getting back on the bike and continuing our amazing adventure. While visiting one of our friends he commented that we hadn't put up any photos of our campsites along the way, I must adm...

We have been back home now for a month, we left Lucca on the 3rd of March. We first caught the train from Lucca to Florence, then the 250kph Eurostar train to Rome and then a local shuttle train to the airport. We flew with Emirates on the new A380 Airbus to Dubai where we had a four hour wait before boarding a 777 for the eleven hour flight to Perth. When we left Lucca in the morning it was around 8°, when we landed in Perth it was around 38°! It took us a co...