AndyandMans

Hi Guys Time for our last update..can't believe it! Will pick up where we left off in Edinburgh. Andrew felt well enough the next day to visit Edinburgh Castle and a shop where they have the weaving looms to make tartans. Amazing to see! So cold in Edinburgh, the wind just went straight through you, I think it was about 4 degrees, but the guy at the ticket box said this was nothing, it can get to -26 degrees in winter! Our next step after Edinburgh was York, where we stayed at a B&B and Nikki, the lady who run it, was lovely. Very talkative, but informative. York and Cambridge which was our next place were stopovers on our way back to London. Cambridge is a massive university town. Very pretty, lots of parks and trees. ... read more

Ok, yes, it has been over two weeks since our last update!! Wow, has time flown! First come first, we wanted to back track and tell you about something that happened when we were leaving the Sorrento/Naples area. We had been warned about Naples, so decided not to go and what happened on the autobarn proved our decision correct. Everywhere in Germany/Italy/France has tolls that you have to pay. The locals have cards that they can use to go through the toll booths, however everyone has to pay either cash or credit card. Some tollbooths are manned, but the majority are automated, where you use c/c or pay via coins/notes into the machine. We had no problems throughout our trip, until we got to the Tollbooth outside of Naples. We thought it a little strange that ... read more

A week since our last update, time is flying! I keep promising I will write things down more regularly, but so many distractions! We had just arrived in Rome in our last update and I think I had mentioned we were going out on Segways on Thursday Night. To say I (Amanda) was a little apprehensive, is an understatement. They look like the most amount of fun and I can tell you, they are!!! In our Segway Group there was only 4 of us plus the guide, so it was nice and small. We started with a 10 minute training session and that is all you really need. Andrew and I picked it up very quickly and we had an absolute ball! The company we went with were very organised, everyone had their own radio with ... read more

We left Liechtenstein yesterday (Saturday 5th) and on our way to Milan, we made a pitstop at Lake Como. Wow, even in the overcast weather I can see why this is the playground of the rich and famous (Including Mr Clooney). It is beautiful. The streets are mad, we went for a drive up the side of the mountain and they are so very narrow, in some places only one car can go through at a time. So glad that Andrew was driving. We needed to grab some lunch and some groceries, so we went to a shopping centre in Como. Wow, Andrew and I have been born in the wrong country. The supermarket here was at least half of a bunnings store in size. It had groceries and clothes and stuff. But Andrew and I ... read more

Hi Guys Wow, not sure how to put our amazing week into words, but will try ;). Our holiday to date has felt like a dream, actually being in the places that you have heard about it but are so far away, it is still hard to believe we are actually here. We left Salzburg on Sunday morning, to cross the border into Italy. Wow, while I have loved visiting every country so far, it has always been about getting to Italy. So much so, that when we came to the border, I shed a few tears when we crossed it. This was a place that I have grown up hearing about, tasting food and wine from and listening and trying to learn the language too. I think the tears were a mix of excitement, relief ... read more