Hi All Well it is a touch cooler here now - mid to late 20's. I am being eaten alive my Mozzies though and for some reason the bites are large - this doesn't normally happen to me so they must be a different kind to others I have encountered! But it's still warm so I can't complain really. On Tuesday evening we went to visit a couple - Penny &am...

we parked pluto in a small village in the south of italy and went off for a sandwich.  when we came back, the window was smashed and our backpacks containing our passports with all the visas were gone!!!  we didn't know what to do until an hour later an old man approached me and whispered, "check the cliffs, there are caves down there..." i vent...

We caught a train via Milano and then the sleeper to Brindisi in the heel of Italy for the crossing to Greece... Unfortunately in summer thousands of others have the same idea and the train was packed.Luckily we reserved but people we sleeping everywhere... in luggage racks, in the corridors and guess what it was one huge party. Hot and stinking...