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Saturday 4 th June - On to Viareggio near Lucca via Torre del
Lago Puccini, Northern Italy.
We had
to go head to head with the kamikaze bike riders, Porsche jocks and over-confident
bus drivers as we escaped from cliff-edged Positano ... Read more >
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Sunday 29 th – Saturday
4 th June – In and around the Amalfi Coast
Positano – narrow alleyways, tourists, endless shops, ceramics,
clothing, food, boat trips, pebbly beach, 150 steps up from the beach to the
villa, lemons +++ (lemoncello, ... Read more >
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Saturday 28 th May
Tuscany to Positano with a 2 hour
stopover at Hadrian’s Villa, near Tivoli.
Oh, how sad to leave beautiful Tuscany. Two cars, two families, baby Emma fed and
ready for a 5 hour drive, and now for a completely ... Read more >
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Friday 27 th May
The battlefields…, Hannibal vs
the Romans, Lake Trasimeno, Tuscany, 475 BC
No holiday is complete without a re-enactment of a
bloody massacre between Romans and Carthaginians…is it? Immersing ourselves ... Read more >
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21 - 28 May
Visits to Cortona, Arezzo, Pienza
and Montepulciano, Tuscany
Cortona – situated high on the hill; this Etruscan medieval,
modern town is steeped in history. We
decided to take the 2 hour walking tour and were ... Read more >
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Saturday 21 May
L ü scherz to Cortona, Italy via the Gotthard Tunnel near Interlaken.
Driving the freeways of Italy is a world apart from doing the
same thing in Suisse…more traffic, more intense, more flexibility with
interpreting ... Read more >
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SWITZERLAND | Friday, 27 May 2011 | Views [1074]
Friday 20 th May
Visit to La Br é vine, Le Locle
We
spent another day wallowing in Bouvier roots!
Apparently, a young local girl named Marie Henriette Huguenin turned the eye of a shy, taciturn
aristocrat named ... Read more >
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Thursday 19 th May
Visit to Aarberg, Biel and Neuch â tel,
Switzerland
OK,
now the historic part of the expedition begins with a visit to Aarberg to see
the old home and interrogate the authorities for family history.... Read more >
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Wednesday 18th May
Dijon to Zurich then to Lüscherz, Lake Biel
Every day is a new world – it’s Wednesday so we must be in Suisse! The border crossing was easy and to pay a one off fee for freeways (30 Swiss francs) which lasts until the end ... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Friday, 27 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Friday, 27 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
Including a visit to The Saint Magdalen Basilica, Vezelay
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FRANCE | Thursday, 26 May 2011 | Views [808]
Tuesday 17 th May
Paris to V é zelay, and Dijon – a visit to T he
Saint Magdalen Basilica
After spending a few more
cruisy days in and around Paris taking in the sights ... Read more >
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Thursday 12 th and
Friday 13 th May
Van Gogh’s resting place, Auvers
sur l’Oise, then Claude Monet’s home and garden at Giverny.
Poor Vincent…what a talent and yet such a troubled life…Jim
reckons ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 16 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Monday, 16 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 16 May 2011 | Views [357]
Wednesday 11 th May
2011
From Dover to Calais then on to Cousin
David’s home near Paris.
After collecting our new (7yo old) car yesterday we had an early
start for Dover to catch the 12.40pm ferry.
After a quick sortie ... Read more >
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