Category: Italy
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Week 21: Crossing Italy to catch a ferry

After Sicily our intention was to head to Croatia. At this time of year the only ferry running departs from Ancona to Split. Ancona is about two thirds of the way up the east coast of Italy. This required a few long driving days and there were a couple of things we wanted to do…
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Week 19/20: Sicily

In this blog post we explore Sicily’s numerous Greek and Roman archaeological sites, get a taste for hiking in its beautiful countryside, and savour some Sicilian food specialities and wine. James also gets to flex his climbing and mountain biking muscles. Getting There We spent a couple of weeks meandering around Italy waiting for the…
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Week 17/18: Avoiding the rain in Italy

In this blog post we do our best to avoid rain and manage to visit the classic Tuscan cities, and get a taste of Marche, Abruzzo, Puglia and Calabria in the process. Our “Italy plan” was to take a ferry from the north west coast of Italy to Sicily, and then work our way back…