Day 1: Barletta – Silvi – Spello – Assisi, 490km All good things must come to an end, or so they say. It was time to come back to Blighty for the last leg of our summer road trip. We packed up and left a sunny Barletta on a monday morning, hitting the motorway almost immediately, still surrounded by olive groves, bright sun shining above us and the Adriatic sea a constant and distant companion to our right. Motorway…
The road trip of a lifetime? I have not spent Ferragosto in Italy for absolutely ages, my August family holiday usually limited to just over a week, due to the obvious work commitments. This year some exceptional circumstances (change of job!) meant that we could take a slightly longer Italian break to fit in a family wedding as well as our habitual week in Cilento. We then tried to figure out how we could take our pooch Amber and well,…
After weeks of rebuilding, fixing, polishing our 1961 Mini was ready to go on another #miniadventure. We made our way towards the coast on a Thursday afternoon, aiming to catch the 22.30 ferry. We made it to Dieppe a few hours later, after a few scary glitches on the car put our trip in jeopardy for a bit. Cidre in the sun After a few hours resting in an Etap room, our first stop of the morning was Norauto –…
Exploring Paris local restaurants Girlie weekends are a must every so often, and Paris is an easy to reach destination for me. It seemed an easy place to meet my sister TroppoBuono, a well known Italian food writer and her friend Chiara, a chocolatier, who currently lives indeed in Paris. With these two around, the weekend was never going to be one of fashion, sightseeing or rest. No. It was going to be a weekend about eating, drinking, tasting with…