After the excesses of our first day in the capital of France, today our 2nd day was to be a completely different kind of experience and would involve a train journey of over 7 hours travelling down from Paris to our next destination Milan, Italy. Our feet were still tingling this morning from our walking and sightseeing of the previous day. As I have mentioned, the hotel which was our bed for the night was a little shabby but OK, and the staff were friendly e...

Tuesday 7th July 2015. It seemed that no sooner had I put my head down on the pillow, I heard the familiar tone of my iphone alarm tone which could mean only one thing... It was 4am and time to get up out of bed for what will be the first day of our extensive tour of France & Italy...a momentus journey 16 days long starting in Paris, travelling by train down to Milan, a couple of days by Lake Garda then on to Venice, followed by Rome and finally arriving in ...