If you’re visiting Lisbon for more than a weekend, make sure you take a day trip (or two) to Sintra and Cascais. In fact, you definitely need a whole day in Sintra if you want to visit all the sites so don’t make the mistake we did by doing both…
After talking about visting Sardinia for years, we finally got round to booking a five night trip in early September. Sardinia (or Sardegna as the Italians call it) is a really large island – around 24,000 square kms and almost 2,000 kms of coastline. It has four provinces and three…
Ischia is a volcanic island located around 30km from Naples in Italy and is accessed via a short ferry ride from Naples Beverello. It’s one of my favourite Italian islands and we have visited many times since 2009. It’s fairly big – there are about 60,000 people who live in…
My husband is Italian and so we visit Italy several times a year because ‘it’s the best country in the world’ – his words, not mine. According to him, Italy has the best beaches, best food and best wine. The thing is…. the more I visit different towns and cities…
