Disclaimer again: This is blog entry 3/3 from our Dolomites trip in June 2022. Better late than never tho innit! I love cable cars. Nikki doesn’t. Or at least didn’t. She has quite a fear of heights and really did not promise to join me in any cable car escapades during our trip to the […]
Italy
An Italian turquoise mountain lake
On our first full day at the Italian Dolomites we decided to head off to a hike to a mountain lake. We drove quite a while through the majestic scenery, stopping at the first shop we saw (shops are few and far between, as we learnt at our accommodation town) to buy savoury snacks and […]
Hello to the Dolomites, feat. Venice
What is Italy famous for? Well, many things, but one thing is its mountains. So, in true better-later-than-never-fashion (I don’t feel too bad though, as this was the month that the postcards from this trip finally arrived at their destinations), the next three entries will be dedicated to my early June trip to my most […]
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Day 16: What language is spoken in Switzerland?
Hello from the YMCA Hostel in Basel, Switzerland! Currently on day 18 though blogwise a bit late… AWESOME hostel, very spacious, and free tea! Shame about the lack of real plugs to recharge computers tho… Anyways, blogwise we are on Day 16, which you need not know too much about. I was gradually getting tired […]
Day 15: Rome in a day
One of the days I was most looking forward to! And an excellent day. First of all, as I mentioned in the previous entry: ROMA PASS is worth it. 34 euros, okay in the end I doubt we actually “saved” money by getting it, but it is SO WORTH IT because for the first two […]
Day 14: Tiramisu & Boboli amongst other things
Started off quite sleepy too. We checked out of our cool hotel/hostel, Siggorno Pitti in Florence (it had an official-looking reception, a very light, big and cool dining room/lounge with pretty sofas and lots of stuff to read) and after a typically disappointingly average breakfast we decided not to venture too far but just explore the […]
Day 13: Pisa & Florence
Bonjorno! Today has been quite a slow-pace non-happeny day in comparison with yesterday. I woke up just before 10 (record since literally MONTHS), whereas CC was woken up by our Hong Kongian roomy’s alarm at 7.30 and couldn’t get back to sleep. He was not impressed. Plan was: The tower of Pisa in the […]
Day 12: CINQUE TERRE!
Today was one of the days I’d been most waiting for – Cinque Terre – five little villages on the coast of Italy, between Genova and Pisa, and the national park around them. There is a train linking them, but what many people do is walk it. 11km and 5h, which doesn’t seem too bad. […]
Day 11: First impressions of ITALY!
Today was the day we left France and headed towards our third big destination, Italy. We started off with another nice bigger brekkie in Nice, then walked over to the station. CC got a not-so-nice (even tho he was in Nice 🙁 ) last memory of France of nearly being pickpocketed, literally we were in front […]