The following guest post has been written by Katia, a fellow blogger and friend who blogs at Funky Wellies’ Random Thoughts. The post is sponsored and in collaboration with Casa in Italia, an agency...
A Sicilian Shooting
“You look like a very photogenic couple. Would you like to be in a film?” asked the suave, moustachioed, tanned man with a clipboard. Dougie and I were sitting in the reception area of our hotel...
#FriFotos – Pink – Lake Garda
Another little dip into the Twitter travel world of #FriFotos where the theme today is PINK for Breast Cancer Awareness. I had a look through my holiday albums and found my best selection of...
Bisse Racing in Bardolino
Thanks to Colin Nicholson’s article, ‘Next Stop: Venice’ in the Sunday Telegraph’s Discover section, I was transported back two summers to our fabulous holiday in Lake Garda, Italy. The article was about the gondola...
The Gallery – A Novel Idea – A Room with a View
The theme for “The Gallery” this week is a photograph which represents a treasured book. My chosen novel is A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. The novel tells of Miss Lucy Honeychurch and...
The Gallery – Holidays – Laughs on Lake Garda
The theme for this week’s Gallery is ‘Holidays’. Right up my street this one, though fraught with difficulty as to what to choose. In the end I plumped for some photos from...
Mum’s Gone to Venice – pizza and pigeons
I’m having a bit of an Italian renaissance at the moment with the blog posts. Photos of Lake Garda last week, reminiscing about an early holiday in Rome the week before. And now Venice....
Mum’s Gone to Rome – skeletons and spaghetti
Not exactly Russell Crowe….. 36 nuns on a zebra crossing in Rome was my entry for The Gallery last Wednesday, a photo from our first European city break as a family in 2005, when...