Day 5 and it's off to Venice. What is it about trains and us. Is it the time spent in lines or just waiting that gives us time to think, I really don't know. But today was like every other. Arrive early, get the tickets, find the train, get a seat, relax and its when we no sooner start to ease out of the station, than it's realised ( I wont say by whom) that all of the carefully prepared maps and information on the places we are programmed to see, is safely back...

Day 4. Another day and another train. The trip up to Feltre is mostly on a single track, climbing up into the pre Alps. Then suddenly we come to a stop somewhere in the forest. The announcement is quite to the point and one of the words that I pick up sounds like Fermata ( stop) and colazione (breakfast). Surely not. The driver has gone for breakfast? Not altogether surprising but then the announcement in English tells us that we have stopped due to a "railway in...

Day 3 and for the most part, it went quite well. It seems that so much of our travels we spend walking in our children's footsteps. Today they were Sarah's when she spent some time in Conegliano studying Italian when she was at Swinburne. Up and after breakfast at a civilised time, we arrived set to take the train to Conegliano, which initially was running 10 mins late but that's no big deal, only a little later it was cancelled. Still no problem as the next tra...

Day 2 and well on the way to ticking all the boxes. Treviso, is Venice without the crowds, sunflowers on umbrellas, tour guides with microphones and selfie obsessed "people" blocking bridges and narrow passages. Treviso just also happens to be the home of Beneton, Sisley and Geox so now, with a full quota of tee shirts, a fine wool jumper, shoes, socks and a coat/jacket it's probably time to start the sightseeing. After a fairly solid workout, Jean's credit car...

Well it's been some time since our last blog but the fact is, since I last wrote we have only been to Scandinavia and last year, to Canada, Alaska and Hawaii, and well, nothing goes wrong in these countries so there is little point in writing a blog. But this year its all about bikes, train, bus and ship travel, in Italy, Slovenia and Croatia and while we could never top our Great Italian Railway Journey of 2013 (see my past blog Stressa to Locarno to understand...