Monday morning started fine and cool. I went for a morning run down to Porta Nuova station and along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II to the River Po. It was a very beautiful still morning and the city was eerily quite. That was probably due to the 24 hour transport strike that had begun at midnight…
We flew out of Tauranga early Saturday morning with bags checked through to Milan. We’d invested in Smart Tags and used them for the first time to track our bags during a trip to France in early 2025. The irony was not lost on us that this was the first trip that we’d ever lost…
In November 2025 we decided that a long summer trip in Europe was well overdue. It had been 12 years since our campervan tour of the South of France, the most memorable and relaxing trip we had ever done. This time it would be Italy, starting in Tuscany (we’d watched Medici!), but beyond that we’d…