After our trip to Italy we spent a week or so back at home, sorting things, washing and eating mountains of strawberries that had grown whilst we were away. My mum and dad had been over to water the garden (this was mid/end of June so part of the long hot summer) so when we…
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 further north to Ponte Gardena. As it was we worked out later on, there is a…
After getting back from the Lakes in early August, we’d lost our walking mojo. We’d done one walk, the previous week, on southern Dartmoor, but this was now my birthday weekend, at the end of September and we really hadn’t been walking properly for 5 or 6 weeks. Time to start changing that with another…
