It was a slow and lazy start to the day, brought to life by trying out the 'shower machine' as Michelle has nicknamed the tardis like box. The hydrotherapy system sends out needle like jet sprays at your body - the initial reaction is to defend yourself from this skin tearing water torture, but you soon relax and go numb. it lights itself up with multi couloured LED lights, and assualts you on all sides with water, in a very small space. You step out of the showe...

Today we were packed and ready to go. Michelle had not been feeling well, so whilst she rested I ducked out to take some last minute photos of areas I had not been to yet in Varona. At 10.30 we were picked up and driven to the train station in good time. It's now a logistical exercise in luggage management to get us onto and off a train, whilst finding luggage space is our new challenge on trains. This train trip was spent getting the photos up to date on this bl...

Today was a bit more of a laid back day. We got up late, were slow to get going, deciding today was an opportunity to explore Verona some more. We eventually hopped on a sightseeing bus, where we had an all day pass to hop on and off the two different lines - saving the feet for the hills and Lake Como. We saw and learnt a lot more about the history of Verona and its many changes of rule. The many & varied stunning buildings here are art forms that represent ...

Today's mission was simple if not extravagant. To get to Murano, find the shop we purchased our kitchen pendant light shades from, and purchase a third one. Simple! We love Venice so getting up early and walking to the train station was not difficult from a motivation perspective. We ended up taking a regional slow service because the price of the fast train was four times the cost of this service. Arriving into Venice around 9.41am we immediately set out for Mur...

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...