Gday Cathy here. We realised we had missed a city in our blog and as that was unforgiveable to our brave readers I have decided to take a step back to sunny lake Como. As many of you will know Lake Como is the religious home to all George Clooney admirerers. Krista and I have toyed with this religion so it gave us great joy to be heading to the homeland. We were on our last night of the bus tour with george michael and lake como was the destination. We had g...

Buon giorno tutti! Kristabella here. It's now Wednesday 8 September and Cathy and I are in day three of our five day stay in Porto Venere, a lovely coastal outpost around the corner of the infamous 'Cinque Terre', five sea villages of gelati-coloured buildings with white sheets billowing from tiny balconcies overhead. Cinque Terre is the Noosa for most Italians and the villages are so picturesque it is easy to fall in love with this provincial lifestyle. While Ro...

Gday Cathy here. Our first night in Florence was straight out of a bad italian film. We were taken to a restaurant in an old monastery and the concierge was an italian dean martin. he would grab a microphone and start singing all the great Italian top of the 1950's pops. Tell me Quando Quando Quando! We sang along to 'When a big pizza pie hits you right in teh eye. That's amore'. It was hilarious. There was another old guy that looked like Mel Brooks and ...

On Tuesday, we headed off on our five day tour of the north. We headed out of Rome around 7.30am and by the time we got into Hotel Adriactico in Florence it was after 10pm. In between that we learned all about the lovely region of Umbria, the ONLY Italian region without a seaside border. Our tour guide is Niccola but think George Michael from WHAM, complete with pick shirt, batting for the boys and with a lisp that would make Silvester the cat impressed. George i...

Hi from Donna, the Interloper on the Rome leg of the grand Italian Tour! Thanks to the ladies for letting me join them, had a fab time, here are some of my thoughts.. Best Food Dinner the first night (Thursday) I'm sure Krista will have the name of the restaurant, pasta filled with pear and truffles, yummmmm Closely followed by Licorice Root gelati at San Crispino. Finally all pizza in Roma, paper thin bases, very simply with tomato and cheese or maybe with ...