Bucket List 196: Italy!
The Road Travelled · Tales From Italy · Photos
Country 57/196: Italy. If there is one nation’s cuisine that I would happily devour for the rest of my life it would be this fine country, and that’s despite the hopelessness of explaining veganism. From the mountainous, lake-saturated north to the picture postcard, rolling Tuscan heartlands to the endless sun-drenched south, it would be easy to spend an entire year touring its perfect piazzas and hilltop hamlets. I defy anyone not to fall in love even just a little here. Just be sure never to order a cabbage pizza, whatever the server tells you.
The Road Travelled
Tales From Italy
The Floor is Lava
November 7th, 2022 Following our Vatican visit and Rome roam, we re-joined Italy’s arterial motorway, the A1, in a south-easterly direction towards our last major Italian city of the tour: Naples. Informed to expect traffic chaos on levels only matched by Swindon’s Magic Roundabout, we decided to leave Vishnu well outside the city limits and use the decidedly…
Land of Pope and Glory
October 27th, 2022 You re-join us in the smallest, and quite possibly the most peculiar, nation on earth as we began to make the intrepid journey halfway across the entire country from Saint Peter's Square to the renowned Vatican Museums, a journey of a little over fifteen minutes by foot. You must keep your wits about you, however,…
We Found a Dove in a Pope-less Place
October 16th, 2022 When the country you’re visiting has the highest crime rate in the world but not a single prison cell or the shortest rail track but only one station you know you’re somewhere a little bit special. And it is for these sorts of quirks and curiosities, as well as being the smallest nation on earth…
Florence and the Cuisine
October 11th, 2022 Following a relatively relaxing week bathing in lakes and scraping on gates, our next involved far more hustle and bustle as we made our way to Italy’s second city in what were pretty miserable conditions. A bleak and gloomy Milan greeted us as we pulled into the only car park in the city guarded by…
Pasta Point of No Return
October 5th, 2022 With hectic, summer, working schedules drawing to a close and crisp, autumnal mornings making a most welcome return, our annual escape from the British Isles could commence in earnest. On this occasion, six months or more living and working from Vishnu, our converted builder’s van, await. Following last year’s eventful dry run around Western Europe,…
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Italy
Country: 57/196 Visited: Autumn ’22
