Hot on the heels of the Madrid trip the previous weekend it was time for a 'Cheeky Boys' trip to Italy after just four days at work. The outline plan would see us flying from East Midlands Airport into Bergamo on the Thursday, where we would spend one night, and we would then head to Florence (or Firenze, in Italian) by train for a couple of nights before flying back from Pisa to the UK on the Sunday afternoon. According to Roy (from Tamworth, not from Reading ....

Due to not having enough annual leave I couldn't join the other five 'Cheeky Boys' on the Thursday afternoon flight from Luton to Naples, instead I would catch them up on the Friday. Given the poor weather, it was lucky that we all managed to get to the airport and that flights got people to their destination. My Thursday evening in Luton was had at the Thistle Express Hotel, which was close to the main station rather than staying at the airport. The room, which...

This is our first trip to Sicily and given we had just a few full days to explore we certainly crammed in a fair amount although we only saw parts of the south/eastern part of this island. Wednesday 28th December 2016 The journey by train from Rome to Catania took just under ten hours, our reservation in Coach 2 said it was a through service although all station display signs and announcements said the train was heading to Palermo! Once south of Naples the ra...

After a quick(ish) journey to Luton Airport Parkway we were soon at the airport getting ready to join the easyJet flight 2418 departing Luton at 1135 to Rome Fiumicino (FCO). The flight, taking just under two hours and fifteen minutes was, as expected, rather uneventful although seeing a rather unusual cloud formation following the river close to Rouen in France was quite interesting. You could tell you were in Italy from the moment you stepped into the airport ...

Another weekend and another adventure but this one featured The Cheeky Boys, aka Spencer, Gavin, Roy, Kev, Steve and myself of course - the question is, which of us is the cheekiest of them all? This time we were off to northern Italy featuring three nights away starting with a flight to Bergamo north of Milan, then by train Tirano on the Swiss border and wrapping the trip up in Bellagio on Lake Como. Planes, trains, automobiles, boats and buses all featured in ...