Oh my goodness we are just so lazy!!! decided that we are so in need of a rest! that we just have to go to the beach again.....taken ourselves off to Cattolica on the Adriatic coast again, spent four lovely days sunning ourselves by day and sitting up all night listening to the Italians Woop it up at the beach..... and my goodness can they woop, just as any decent english person is tucking themselves in for the night they decide to get going. I have never seen so...

Ok I know most of this trip seems to have been about me but you have to admit how many of you would do this? We drove to Bologna and stayed on a campsite! (actually was great and the food in the restaurant was some of the best we've had) just so Maggie could go on a tour of her beloved Ducati Factory...hope you're all suitable impressed. Although I must admit I actually enjoyed it, the place is still so small and the bikes are handmade so it wasnt like watching a...

Arrived in Florence, drove straight to the hills above and miraculously found a fab hotel called Villa Fiesole, the most amazing views over Florence which I actually found quite dull..... I know, I know, maybe even I have been cultured to death! poor maggie.... dragged her around a great ex-convent with some great Frescoes by a guy called Fra Bartollini, not sure about those nuns they seem a bit strange to me! Then had to queue for 2 hours to get into the Galleri...

Arrived in Pisa after a fairly stressful drive from Perugia, went into Siena on our way which was beautiful though not much different from Perugia, you can really get swamped here, it seems that every town has so much culture, art, architecture and food to explore there doesnt seem enough time. Anyway after finally finding ourselves driving around and around Pisa we stopped outside a building that looked like a hotel! and what fun it was a real ex-convent called ...

We tried to leave our beach resort, Maggie decided to resist completely by throwing herself down the stairs of our hotel in protest!!!! Yep not sure if I've really brought Lee on holiday with me in disguise!! So with twisted, swollen and sore ankle we finally hobbled out of Porto San Elpido on our way to Tuscany. We wanted to drive through the middle and see where we fancied stopping on the way, we stopped off at Assisi managed to get a few hundred yards into the...