The 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 for one use across the whole summer period, so we could choose the best day.…

The 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 further north to Ponte Gardena. As it was we worked out later on, there is a…

Bologna 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 plain colour, they are long (4km), narrow (95cm) and high (12.94m). They started out as a way to increase…

Bologna 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 hours in the car before getting the bus to the terminal. As it was Linda slept…