Today we said farewell to Bologna, and Donkey, but not before we had an interesting session on the language barrier, when collecting the car from the garage. The garage we had used to store the car overnight was within the city restrictions on vehicle access. When I removed two pieces of paper from the dashboard and looked at them, one of the helpful garage guys who had limited English, came up and tried to explain "fine". He went on in Italian and I decided I mu...

Today was all about the car, the brand, the man, Enzo Ferrari. We were off mid morning after a breakfast prepared for only us as we are the only ones staying at this six room hotel currently. First stop Maranello, which took about an hour to get there due to the driver making a navigation decision between two options. Let's just say of the two female voices available to him he choose the one with a thirty year relationship. We had a pleasant scenic trip, interrup...

Today we farewelled southern Tuscany and headed north visiting Siena on our way to Bologna. Our start was a little halted by trying to find someone to check us out of our accommodation. It appears 8.30am might have been a little early for the hosts. Siena is a not quite as large a city as Arezzo yesterday. We wondered if we had parked in the right place when we first walked into the no drive zone. There was very little clue as to what was to come. Very early on i...