Baron in Italy, Tue, 24 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Transit
in Austria, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, San Marino, Switzerland
Baron in Italy, Mon, 23 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Sea, Transit
in Europe, France, UK
After a short walk in town, a baguette and an overpriced and disappointing tea later, we were ready for the ferry. Off to Britain! Now we’re on the ferry and surprisingly good weather allowed us to have a lunch on …
Baron in Italy, Sat, 21 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Mountain, Waterfall
in Europe, France
Our amazement with Mont Blanc was quickly cooled with the tunnel passage price. €46.40?! Wow… On the French side the clouds were still heavy, but the views still gorgeous. After about an hour of driving down on neutral, we spotted …
Baron in Italy, Sat, 21 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Mountain, Transit
in Europe, Italy
Yesterday was murderous! The rain just got worse and worse and soon even the top wiper setting was barely enough. We were hoping we might catch some beautiful views over the Ligurian coast, but we barely ever saw more than …
Baron in Italy, Fri, 20 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
We had a solid sleep this morning – the far corner of the bus station car park has been wonderfully quiet. We got our supplies packed, including the pad and headphones (so prepared!) for yet another work call. Despite the …
Baron in Italy, Thu, 19 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Museum, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
We had a slower start to this day with packing up our stuff from the Airbnb and a work phone call. I also lost one of my favourite earrings on the way to our first stop and we retraced our …
Baron in Italy, Wed, 18 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Museum, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Early start this morning – lots to see! First stop was the Uffizi gallery. This place is so vast! We started off thoroughly looking at all the Roman sculptures at the beginning of the gallery, but after 4 hours there, …
Baron in Italy, Tue, 17 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Museum, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Another delicious lazy morning with waking up in a proper bed! We were clearly super tired from traveling and didn’t get up until 10am, but headed out for sightseeing soon afterwards. Florence is so full of amazing things to see, …
Baron in Italy, Mon, 16 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Got to Florence! On the way in we drove through Piazza do Michelangelo and for some fantastic views of the city and David. Perfect way to enter the city! But then we met the second thing Florence welcomes you with …
Baron in Italy, Mon, 16 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Mountain
in Europe, Italy
Another mountain range, another serpentine road. This time the breathtaking alpine views are replaced with monasteries and castles on mountaintops, and clouds you can drive into, and lonely armchairs. The driving in the clouds but was pretty intense, actually – …
Baron in Italy, Mon, 16 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Castle, City, Mountain, UNESCO site
in Europe, San Marino
With all the cold and the driving and various other worries, I wasn’t feeling great all morning. It took a while to cheer up, but San Marino has helped me a lot. Firstly, we had to feed the Baron and …
Baron in Italy, Mon, 16 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Graveyard, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Before we left Ravenna we had a look at Theodoric’s tomb from the outside, as it is close to where we parked. Now off to San Marino!
Baron in Italy, Sun, 15 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
After the short drive from our parking spot, we arrived in Ravenna. We were amazed at the hugeeeee powerplants we passed on our way here and then by some of the really ugly buildings in the town – I guess …
Baron in Italy, Sat, 14 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Castle, City, Graveyard, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Waking up today was great, because the sun is back! How great to open the Baron’s door and see sunshine flood into our bedroom. Took a lovely chilled morning, with a proper tea and breakfast, even read the news! Only …
Baron in Italy, Thu, 12 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Museum, Temple
in Europe, Italy
From here, trouble started. Bologna doesn’t allow older diesel cars in. Normally we would qualify as the Baron is reasonably young, but today there is a smog alert and no diesels are allowed in at all! How useful that, having …
Baron in Italy, Thu, 12 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Museum, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
We woke up so early! And all to make it to the art gallery at opening time of 8:30 and be on our way. And it was worth it – Palazzo dei Musei holds a beautiful Bernini bust, a series …
Baron in Italy, Wed, 11 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
We arrived to Modena around 7pm and spent the first half hour looking for a parking spot. Figuring out Italian parking rules is hard and not make easier by the system of ridiculously narrow one way streets and a complete …
Baron in Italy, Wed, 11 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Castle, City, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
The trip from Verona to Mantua is very short, and the view of the town is magnificent once you get there. Surrounded by a river bend, Mantua just didn’t grow that much since the Renaissance and seems like it’s completely …
Baron in Italy, Tue, 10 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Verona is wonderful! We arrived at around 11am. Firstly, we visited Verona Arena, an amazingly preserved Roman amphitheatre. It was so cool and had great views of the surrounding city and Alps in the distance. Next we walked to Piazza …
Baron in Italy, Mon, 09 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Sauna/Baths
in Europe, Italy
After leaving Brescia, we drove to a thermal lake path near Lake Garda. This park turned out to be pretty wonderful. The lake was of thermal mineral water and situated amongst the trees is this park, and there were two …
Baron in Italy, Mon, 09 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a City, Ruins/Excavation, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
We spent this morning seeing some of the beautiful churches of Brescia. Firstly, the New Cathedral. I really liked this church as the interior lacks all of the gold & gaudy baroque decor. Next to this is the Old Cathedral, …
Baron in Italy, Sun, 08 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Castle, City, Museum, Ruins/Excavation, Temple, UNESCO site
in Europe, Italy
Today was a day of misunderstandings. We left Aprica in the morning and got to Brescia before noon, taking in some awesome mountain and lake views on the way. It took a while to find a parking spot – this …
Baron in Italy, Sat, 07 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Mountain
in Austria, Europe, Germany, Italy, Switzerland
Today’s episode is sponsored by the European Union and the Schengen Zone. We are in Italy! We’ve been to four countries today, and we almost crossed the Alps. And without a single stop at any border. How awesome is that? …
Baron in Italy, Sat, 07 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Castle
in Europe, Germany
What a view to wake up to! Now back to the lost cat key scare… Seriously thought we lost them! Thankfully after much searching and more panicking, we found they feel into the backpack. Already changed parking spot just in …
Baron in Italy, Chasing the sun, Thu, 05 Dec 19
Jemma and Simon
at a Sauna/Baths
in Europe, Germany
First night in the van! This was much better than expected. -3 outside, but we were all pretty happy and snug in our insulated van and under our duvet and the extra woollen blanket my mum gave us. Thanks mum! …
