It's another blue sky but with a hitch today - high winds which shook the roof for the best part of the night so my preparation for taking on the Italian roads is almost no sleep because of the wind (and an overindulgence of an aged hot salami), instant coffee and the worst excuse for toast since the cavemen browned small rocks over a campfire. I have enjoyed the two weeks here but I am looking forward to the last 4 days and getting home as well as my routine an...

Woo hoo one more sleep till Firenze. Another smashingly cloudless blue sky which seems the norm here until the clouds roll in about midday. Today the cull begins as we shed luggage space to enable a less stressful train enbarkment and disembarkment and to eke out some extra space for some Florentine shopping. I have already got rid of two shirts, a pair of jeans, a pair of pants and a backpack. All my bits and bobs fit in my Moto Guzzi satchel I picked up in Fi...

We woke up to a stunning morning- flawless blue sky, birds singing, and the chook next door going off tap whilst laying a bumnut. Usually we stay put on the weekends as the roads are more nuts and goes from plain maniacal to suicidal lunacy Mach 2 but to sit around loafing today seems somewhat sinful so I am trying to coerce Tarn into visiting some of the local villages. It's very hard to put in words how the villages are structured here as they have no correla...

In the words if Robbie Williams - Lazy Days. Today is a Tuscan public holiday particular only to the acreage of a single farm on the San Romano-Campogiorno road known as "fare tre-cinqui di dolce fungola tutti" (Doing 3/5 of sweet f**k all) day. The kids just want to play (and fight), Tarn & Mum are sunbathing / cloudbathing, and I am joining in the idleness watching Italian infomercials (they are just so passionate) and a cross between Judge Judy & Jer...

Finally found wifi in an Internet cafe in Castelnuovo but the blogs server decided to crash or go offline before I uploaded it all. It's going to look like a week or so is missing and that's because it is. All bar Anzac Day from San Romano is still sitting in the iPhone waiting and will have to do so until Monday afternoon when we arrive at our "connected" Florentine apartment. Castelnuovo itself was not much to write about and is just another town really with n...