Well Shirley seems to pick exotic places to celebrate her birthday in the pass 5 years, and this year is no different. Oggie (today)we're off to the Dodgies palace.there is only one thing that is wrong with what we are about to do and that is it is peeing down with rain. We take the waterbus from near the train station and Shirley has it all worked out as she always does,catch the No2 she crys out , so on we get ,it like riding on the fast train to Newcastle, lim...

Our room is beautiful, looks right over the canal which is a working canal. Shirley and I wake about 7.00 a.m.,down for breaky , met the group, all decide to explore their own way . That done Shirley and I are off to the famous ponte di Rialto ( Rialto bridge). We meander through the lane ways of Venice stopping at a number of shops and stalls, just enjoying the surrounding, it so hard for us to accept that we are actually here. You will be please to know with t...

I start this blog with our last day in Certaldo Tuscany and finish it with our arrival in Venice. Friday started slowly ,rainiing, still tired from the wine tour,so just lazed around to lunch. Soon after Shirley and I were off to San Gimignano, a small village surrounded by a wall but inside there are many different types of shops and craft as well as historic buildings. Shirley, Di and I all went on a spending spree,I known its hard to believe, but yes I spen...