The wind called Libeccio
[ Aug.2022 ] During our summer holiday in Syracuse, Sicily, we took a boat trip around the area. We had a reservation at 3:00 pm, and when we went there, we found that we were…
Transports in Italy
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…
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…
Getting out of the UK for the first time in over a year
[Sept. 2021] We have been stuck in the UK for over a year due to regulations on the Covid-19 and my husband’s broken leg. This has never happened since I started living in the UK….
How to get to Asinara Island
[Sept. 2020] Our “living” in Alghero on Sardinia, Italy was already in the second half. On this day, we took a full day tour to Asinara, a small island at the northwestern tip of the…
Arrived in Alghero
[ Aug.2020 ] The flight from Rome to Alghero in Sardinia was quite packed, but Alitalia had a rule to make the middle seats free, so we did not have to be too close to…
Fly to Italy during the pandemic
[ Aug.2020 ] At the end of August this year, we were originally planning to go to Japan. But Japan has been virtually adopting a national isolation, so our flight was cancelled. Instead, we decided…
At the transfer station on the way to Orvieto
[ Aug.2019 ] On the third day of our short holiday in Umbria, we went to Orvieto from Perugia as a day trip. In retrospect, I think it was reckless, because it took about 2…
To Pescara via Rome
[ Nov.2017 ] We went to Pescara, a seaside town on the Adriatic Sea in the middle of Italy. Pescara is in Abruzzo. We have already been to many places in Italy, but it was…
