Monday 21st November After a night of continuous rain masking the sound of church bells things got off to a bad start wen the coffee grinder gave up the ghost. Luckily we still had the old hand grinder so I…

Sunday 20th November Any one who has ever spent any time near a church will find this to be one of the easiest competitions they have ever entered. It’s called guess the time. One ding followed shortly by eight dongs…

Thursday 17th November We moved on from Florence Wednesday morning and had a really nice drive to Pisa, the roads were almost very good and after a quick detour to Lidls we were parked up in our sosta just outside…

Tuesday 15th November Florence day 2 and we’ve nearly got a plan. Since we have to walk down the hill into Florence anyway we’ve decided to take the longer route and visit a church (for a change) on the way.…

Monday 14th November It seems like ages since we last blogged, our MiFi dongle broke and we’ve had to wait until we got to a large town to get it sorted.  Thursday we arrived in Siena, we only went there…

Thursday 10th November Apologies for how late this blog is, I managed to break my MiFi dongle and have had to wait until we could go shopping for a new one. Lucy planned the menus this week, hence the title.…

Tuesday 8th November You might look at my rugged handsome exterior and think there is a real man, a well tamed Bear Ghrylls that everyone can aspire to but underneath this hard shell is a fluttering mass of jelly, scared…

Saturday 5th November We stayed on our little sosta for three nights in the end, it had it’s good points but also some not so good. Flies have been a bit of a problem, annoying, persistent little buggers which made…

Wednesday 2nd November We’re back again!! The problem (one of the problems) we have is that we don’t have a sensible adult to advise us so in the end we took the easy option – do nothing. Our Camper Cheques…