Euphoric is the only way to describe how I feel when I am travelling in Italy. Have you ever seen a dog hanging it’s head out of a car window into the wind? That dog looks as though it is the happiest it has ever been in its whole doggy life. That is how I feel when I’m travelling in…
There is a bath in this accommodation we booked for a week in the hills behind La Spezia, Italy. This is a bath in which you can do yoga moves, not because you want to but because it is a necessity to get into/sit in/shower in or bathe in. You can sit in this bath with your back against the…
The 9 Rules for peeing on holiday… RULE ONE always know where your nearest food outlet is that might be big enough to have a toilet you can use RULE TWO be prepared to spend 3 euros on a cup of coffee you don’t need that will only make you want to pee again sooner rather than later RULE THREE wear suitable…
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD TRAVEL So that when you get to the end of the path, you can say you made your own path. So that you have memories that only you can have of an exact moment in time that will never, ever exist for anyone ever again in exactly the way it existed for you. In some…
We don’t EVER like to accept defeat, but our desire to stay alive won against our desire to climb the Sassi. These trails beat us not once, but twice, (and then again a year later!) We were hiking In the Apennine Mountains in Italy, and the trail that beat us was in the Parco Naturale Regionale del Sasso Simone e…
I eat more when I am sitting on my butt at work than I do if I am out hiking. Is it any wonder that I’m putting on more fat than my middle aged body can comfortably handle? I’m endangering all my internal organs which are now surrounded by a layer of slow death. My arteries are clogging, my heart…
They say that the best way to increase productivity is to give your brain a “holiday”. It sounds contradictory, but it has been proven over and over. When you relax your mind, instead of slowing down, your brain actually starts to click, fire and whirr like an old piece of machinery warming up. This doesn’t happen immediately and I guess…