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Looking for Audrey Hepburn
... He sternly refused. 2) About 30 K further down the road, we passed a young woman standing in a pullout with way to much makeup on for the daytime and dressed in a skintight short skirt and skintight tank top. Pretty much the way all the young women dress around here. I joked to Janet that she was working the pullout. Another 1 K down the road there was another woman in a pullout pretty much dressed the same, and then another ...
Maratea - A hilltop town with a difference
... onto our 2 hour regional train from Salerno along with every other Italian holidaymaker. With no assigned seats, we had to stand in the aisles (as did everyone else) and by god was it a noisy train... We both stood quietly, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible while everyone else chatted loudly with their neighbours. No-one knew each other, they just decided to pass the time talking about their respective holidays and getting to know their neighbours in very ...
Praja
Praja... Calabria... This place was the crappiest experience of the holiday so far! We saw pamphlets of this place at Taormina and one of the chicks there had just been and said it was the best place of her 4 month holiday and the pamphlet really sold it for us so we booked in expecting the best! We booked in a private room for 3 nights, as soon as we got off the train, the chick that runs the hostel picked us up ...
A day of Leisure at Lake Maggiore
... quiet outside, I sat on a bench at the small beach and soaked up the sun & ambience.
We headed back to our hotel and got back about 3ish -time for a swim :-). Our hotel had no pool, so we had to use the one at the sister hotel about 20 minutes walk away. That hotel was opulence beyond the imagination. Seemed like I'd stepped back to the 1920's. Big pool area & it was quiet - perfect for some last minute relaxation.
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Lake Maggiore - via Lugano in Switzerland
... to wait for Guiseppe to take us to the boat pick-up. Still raining, but not as heavily as earlier. About 20 minute boat ride later, we land at Fisherman's Island. Saw a double rainbow :-)
The dinner was lovely. I was sitting with 5 of the australians at dinner, we were being a bit loud - I think the waiting staff were slightly scared of our table lol.
Had a nice salmon salad for starter, followed by pasta, followed by the main fish dish ...