Hold your breath and here we go… Sorrento, Amalfi, Positano & Pizza Class… Phew!

Busy, Busy, Busy Boy. The header image above is my coffee break table in Positano. It has all the Tour Manager essentials. Ray-Bans, Clicker Counter and iced coffee. If I lose everything else I can still do my job with what you see Yesterday we travelled by rail to Naples (Napoli) and then on to …

CT & V

That’s Cinque Terre and Venice to you. We visited Cinque Terre, the five villages along the coast linked by ferry and rail. Our Local Guide Sara spent the day explaining the tough life of the people who lived there in the past and the difficulties of maintaining the area now that they are connected to …

Hi-Speed Italy

I'm off again on Saturday morning and it's Italy once more - but this time all of my clients are from the USA (38 of them altogether). We're doing a lightning Tour of Italy for Great Rail Journeys sister company, Vacations by Rail - Highlights of Italy Featuring Tuscany & Venice. I'm looking forward to …

HZERO

I wasn’t going to do another post on this Tour since we’re almost done (I’m writing this on the TGV from Nice to Paris) but this was too good to miss. While wandering in Firenze, waiting to rejoin my clients after they had enjoyed some free time, I came across the HZero museum, located in …

Monteriggioni

Yesterday we visited the lovely town of Monteriggioni, perched on a hilltop guarding the approaches to Siena. The Church Bells, that most Italian sound at midday Monteriggioni is on the Pilgrim route, the Via Francigena, leading to Rome from Northern Italy. Here are the signposts and markers showing the way for the pilgrims to walk. …

Treno Natura

Steam Day! Today we took the heritage steam train from Siena to Sant Angelo D’Asso. Boarding was chaos, and everything that I love about anarchic life in Italy. Boarding the train were young, old, kids, dogs and a village music band. People were shouting, phoning each other, posing for photos, getting on the train, getting …