I’ve been to Italy a handful of times but there’s still so much I need to see. I absolutely loved Rome when we visited in 2011, and I’ve now been to Venice twice, Milan twice (including a crazy day trip!), a weekend on Lake Como, and a couple of pit stops in Bologna and Reggio Emilia! Most recently, I spent a week on Lake Garda.
You can read about my Italy trips here:
⭐ Highlights Of Venice – On & Off The Beaten Path
⭐ Milan & Lake Como: Two Days In Northern Italy
⭐ Five Beautiful Towns You Should Visit On Lake Garda
⭐ Hitting Two Of Europe’s “Big Cities”: Barcelona & Rome
As part of our recent Lake Garda trip, we ventured slightly further north to a terrific city I’d never heard much about: Trento. I talked in my last post about how easy it is to add on a day here, there and everywhere when it comes to planning a trip to northern Italy. We were …
When I started researching where to stay and visit around Lake Garda, I was intimidated. Yes, me. Intimidated by a very popular, very well-touristed region of a very easy country to travel; a country that I am very familiar with myself. Back when I looked at Lake Como, I instantly marked out recognisable names like …
Once again, I have undertaken a trip to somewhere totally off the beaten path, resulting in me finding an even less beaten-path way back. This time, my mission was to get to Kosovo, which is actually pretty easy to visit from Albania. However, flights between Edinburgh and Tirana aren’t all that regular, so while I …
In the past few months, I’ve visited three cities I don’t really like: Milan, Barcelona and Paris. Two of these were in passing, as part of larger trips. Paris was the one I was looking forward to the most – despite having a love/hate relationship with it, it’s been twelve years since my last visit, …
Over ten years ago, I visited Milan on one of my crazy day trips. I mostly remember going up to the rooftop of the Duomo, which was incredible although slippery, walking through the beautiful Galleria next door, and then setting off in search of food around Navigli, but instead being bamboozled by the tram system …
Venice is one of the most unique places in Europe – but it’s also one of the busiest, with tourists descending on the sinking city in their thousands every single day. It’s a city that a lot of people don’t expect to love, and depending on your experience, your expectations could be right. Me? I …
A few weeks ago, I found myself with a spare month in which I could do whatever I liked. As some of you know, I finished my job in the hostel at the beginning of October, and with an imminent winter starting in Scotland, my first plan was naturally to travel and find some sun …
When I owned my shop, time off was really scarce. Like, really really. Like, I went almost a year without having two days off together. So when I did find the time to get out of the UK (because leaving the country was genuinely the best – and only – way to distance myself from …
