Sicily

Sicily at last

[Aug. 2022] This year’s summer holiday was spent in Syracuse, Sicily. A holiday that would have been realised a year ago originally. We have bitter memories of this time last year when my husband’s leg…

Milan

Getting on the shiny Italo

[Sept. 2021] In Italy this time, we took a private high-speed train, Italo. This was the first time for us since the spring of 2013. Italo opened in 2012, so it was still new at…

Milan

Yellow in Milan

[Oct.2012] It started in Paris in 2007 and now all over the place. This rental bicycle service started in December 2008 in Milan. The bicycles are yellow in Milan, very Italian. In Paris they are…