Decision Time
Only months after Mongolia, the death drop is Zac’s second near-death experience within a year. I am crystal-clear when I wake up in the morning...
Category: Travel Lifestyle
When Travelling Kids Hit Their Teens
I’d heard that something happened to travelling kids when they hit their teens – that they became averse to longterm travel, unwilling to make new...
One Night in Paris…
Zac stops at the door of Peck, Milan, in a state of panic, brandishing his iPhone. “We can’t go in there! Everyone says they’re really...
Art and Alchemy in Florence
It would be remiss to visit Florence without: a) eating a steak as big as your head b) doing the art thang, c) crossing the...
We Learn to Make Pasta in Bologna
“My great-grandfather bought this farm just before the Second World War,” Federica explains. “He was an industrialist, importing vegetables from Egypt, and he could see...
A Whirlwind Tour of Italy’s Food Museums
The last bastion of the four-hour lunchbreak, the home of Slow Food, the birthplace of the world’s first University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy is almost...
A Sexy, Sexy Shop
After a slow start – an automatic handbrake? What fresh hell is THIS? – we take the slow road from Pisa to Modena, and it’s...
Pisa — Not, Actually, Horrid at All
Bologna is almost entirely shut for Ferragosto, AKA August. So, rather envious of the Italian approach to life, with its six week vacations, four hour...
Venice — Woot!
Our train trundles slowly across the open sea, stucco buildings threading the skyline, waters lapping at their base. “Look!” I exclaim, quite childishly excited. “It’s...
Accidental Tourists in Milan
We hadn’t exactly planned to go to Milan. But, due to the insane economics of travel within Europe, unless we want to spend hundreds of...