We entred Italy after Monaco, so we were a little late looking for a place to stay, but fortune was on our side again and some young men in a coffee shop found us a B&B not too far from where we were in Imperia. The next day we stayed off the tollways as normal, but the traffic was crazy following the coast and progress was way too slow. So near Savona we jumped onto the tollway all the way to Pisa. The road was old, but amazing and after traveling nearly 200...

What can you say about Monaco? No wonder all the rich and famous go there, must make us rich and famous also I guess! It would have to be the cleanest place we have been to so fare and it was lovely to look at. We couldn't believe the boats in the harbor and some of the buildings were very flash. Because of how the place is situated on the coast against the mountains there are houses and buildings perched up high and they have put tunnels through the mountain to ...

We re-entered France via Andorra and the Pyrenees. We took the main road through Andorra and drove the entire length of it, all 56 kilometres of it. It took us up into the snow covered mountains of the Pyrenees, but we were lucky, the sun was shining and it was 6°, the scenery was breathtaking. Julie and I just love the Pyrenees mountains, they are just stunning. We continued heading north to Millau to have a look at the worlds tallest bridge. Opened in 2004 the...

We re-entered Spain from Portugal heading for Salamanca, another place we had been told "we must see". We liked Salamanca, another small city without the problems of the big cities. We had a nice time taking ourselves around, there were some lovely old buildings in good condition and history dating back to Roman times with an old bridge that was the main Roman road into the city. From Salamanca it was onto the big city with big city problems, Madrid. Unfortunatel...

We had only been in Portugal a couple of hours when we were pulled over for a random check by the Police, they wanted my license and insurance papers, luckily we had them now and all was good. This was the first time in nearly 29,000Ks that we had been asked for any of this. One thing that struck us about Portugal, was how much the countryside is like Australia, in places it is very mountainous and in others it is flat or with rolling hills and it ranges from qui...