15th June 2023 Hi, Sorry for the delay in publishing this blog for my trip to Tuscany last month. Even at my age life is full of surprises. I got a call at the start of February from The Travel Department to advise me that I had won a holiday to Tuscany in May, having entered a competition for said holiday on their website. Hard to refuse…… Thursday 11th May 2023 Accompanied by nephew Dave we left Glasgow at 0410 and in an hour reached Edinburg...

July 6th 2017 Hi, Some of you will already have seen the photos of Venice and Donald's 60th birthday celebrations. I am a bit behind with getting the blog out to accompany them. Sorry about that. We had already taken some group photos at the Cinque Torre above Cortina as Cazz had come up with some great group t shirts, which added to the group bonding, if we ever needed it. I have started the photo album with these as they tie in with the whole birthday ev...

15th June 2017 Hi, The family gathered together from Scotland, England, Japan and New Zealand with the main intention of celebrating Donald's sixtieth birthday in Venice. Before getting to the city of Venice itself we journeyed a couple of hours further north. Dolomites? Cor...

First and last trip overseas in 2007 took me off on a walking holiday to Tuscany. Visited the family in Sale on the way down and left from Manchester airport. This was my first visit to Italy since inter-railing in 1983. Following a successful two week walking holiday in Spain two years ago with HF holidays http://www.hfholidays.co.uk/index.asp we decided to follow up with our second choice for that yearWe were staying in the Garfagnana region of Tuscany in a sma...