A truly beautiful place La Prodaia has to be one of the loveliest places we’ve ever stayed at. We have been to Italy a number of times before but never Tuscany until this May. I suggested to my wife that we should try an Agriturismo, as they are very popular in Italy and offer a [...]
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“Piazza del Campo” is the hub of Siena, most streets lead there, pinpointed by it’s very own marker, “Torre del Mangia” which can be seen from various corners of the city. The Piazza offers an infinite range of possibilities as a photographic subject and from the start of my stay in the area, I felt [...]
A drive around the countryside between Crondall, Farnham and Bentley, somewhere around there at least, we found ourselves turning down one lane, then another and another. Crikey are we that far out of the way, we’ll be in Winchester before we know it. The roads were getting more and more dicey, the further we ventured [...]
Our big trip next year will be a month in Italy, May to be precise. Thing is with such a wonderful choice of places to visit and things to do, planning it isn’t going to be easy. However I love to plan, to study books, research online, so it’s a task I relish rather than [...]
I have been pondering over what to take with me to Portugal whilst staying within the luggage restrictions imposed on us these days. It’s really a fine balance between what I need and what I can leave behind. The toughest decision is which lenses to take for the camera and last year, I think I [...]
In just over four weeks time we shall be heading for Lisbon, driving south, spending a week in the Algarve and finishing it all off with a two day jaunt around Lisbon. How about that for a single sentence! We are excited as it’s been about twenty years since I last went there and my [...]
A very hot week ended and all I could think of was the coast. I left a stifling London behind, returned to sunny Hampshire and we loaded up the car and headed for a very warm Wittering in Sussex for the evening. The temperature there was much the same but the air was a lot [...]