The Dolomites – Last day
So after 10 days it was time to be heading home, but time for one last day. We’d looked at various places to visit and walk but a couple of things were against us. Not all the bus routes had opened...
View ArticleThe Dolomites – Vallunga
So having walked one of the best walk I’ve done, what to do next. Surely it would be a lesser walk, or maybe so,ething that doesn’t impress anywhere near as much as the previous day. Seceda was still...
View ArticleThe Dolomites – Seceda
This would be Day 8 of our holiday and looking at the weather a great one for heading up high. I’d prebooked a cable car to Col Raiser before heading to Italy, but the booking on this cable car was...
View ArticleThe Dolomites – Selva di Val Gardena
So we were on Day 7 of our holiday and it was time to move to somewhere new, the Dolomites. We grabbed a train north from Bologna station heading for Bolzano, where we would change to get a train...
View ArticleDay 6 – Florence
Firstly I’ll apologise for the number of photos in this post, there is a lot. But then again we crammed a lot into one day in Florence, probably more than we should and feet were aching by the end and...
View ArticleBologna Day 5 – Museo Civico Archeologico
Our last day wandering around Bologna and what did we have left to do, we’d booked a train to Florence for the day after and we were leaving for the Dolomites after that, so we looked for some new...
View ArticleModena Day 4
After three days in Bologna we headed off for a change, a 25 minute train journey had us stepping onto the platform in Modena, home of balsamic vinegar, Enzo Ferrari, Luciano Pavarotti and some...
View ArticleBologna Day 3 – Torre dell’Orologio
So our third day in Bologna was kind of forced on us, a train strike across Italy had meant we stayed put. Train strikes can be regular in Italy, but this one was planned a month in advance so we...
View ArticleBologna Day 2 (part 2) – Basilica di San Petronio
So we’d walked to and back from San Luca, the sanctuary up on the hill, through the stunning porticoes. We passed through Porta Saragozza and walked until we found a quiet café for refreshment, out of...
View ArticleBologna Day 2 – The Porticoes
The Porticoes or Portici of Bologna are a Unesco World Heritage Site and measure in at 62km long, with 40km in city centre. They are made from wood, stone, blocks, bricks, elegantly painted, or just a...
View ArticleBologna Day 1
So we’d finally reached the time to head off, Bologna was the destination as we nervously pulled into a Heathrow car park at 1am. Our flight was at 7:30am but we hoped we could sleep for a couple of...
View ArticleSteps Bridge, Clifford Bridge and Dunsford
So our previous walk had been to see the lovely Holwell Bluebells and a nice sunset, with warm sunshine up until it went dark. This walk still had the warm weather and the sun breaking through later...
View ArticleThe Holwell bluebells
So May was passing us by and the weather hadn’t really got going, it was still pretty cold (low teens in celsius in Plymouth so colder on the moor) and there was lots of drizzly days. We’d seen a few...
View ArticleErme Pits, Grim’s Grave and Deadman’s Bottom
I did think about creating a title for this walk which included armpits and bottoms, but I reverted to type and stuck with the names of the visited places. This is a walk heading into the central...
View ArticleWembury Point, Wembury and Staddiscombe
So back after our trip to Hayle and we wanted to get out again, only the weather wasn’t playing ball this time, infact apart from a very hot week at the end of May, the normally reliable month for...
View ArticleTrelissick House
We’d had two days of serious coast path walking, clocking up around 25 miles over the two days, so we decided to take things easier on our day travelling home. I had thought about including another...
View ArticlePendeen to Gurnard’s Head
So after completing 13 miles the day before, you’d think we’d take it easy. Not so for myself and Linda, we headed for tougher terrain and a similar distance the next day, with a fantastic walk from...
View ArticleHell’s Mouth to Lelant Saltings
So with just one walk under our belts on Dartmoor, we headed off again at the end of April for some coastal path walking. The weather again was superb (like it was in South Wales), and on returning to...
View ArticleBlakey Tor, Round Hill Tor and hail
So we were back from Wales and headed out for a proper Dartmoor walk after some reasonably dry weather over the last month. I had a route in mind, although the bit after Round Hill Tor had me...
View ArticleTredegar House
So this was the end of our fantastic break away in South Wales, we’d seen Linda’s daughter, stayed in a superb little cottage (definitely return there), done 4 fabulous walks and we wanted one more...
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