Travelogues Italy

View from the apartment door

It’s that time again, an exciting year is coming to an end. We bid farewell to many wonderful bike tours, enjoyable rounds of golf with nice flight partners, and many...

04.10.-05.10.2024 We arrived at our parking spot in Naples around 11 AM. We prepped the scooter and headed straight to the city center where we first enjoyed a Pizza Fritta....

Started the birthday with a delicious breakfast and then a nearly traffic-free drive to Lake Garda. There we met the Penkwitz family and spent a lovely day by the lake...

Taormina is a beautiful city. The old town with its alleys, stairs, and restaurants is simply cozy and idyllic. And if you're lucky, you can see Mount Etna active in the...

The highway towards Genoa is definitely not for the faint-hearted. After a day in Genoa, we were finally able to maneuver Giorgino into the belly of our ship and then enjoy the...

Sunday, 07 July 2024 – Day 6 After coffee and dolci at the Fattoria di Maiano we start our journey home. No problem on the autostrada, in Venice we drive straight on instead of...

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 – Day 4 Yesterday we walked almost 7 km, so today we slept in and only headed into hot Rome shortly before 1 a.m. We start again at the Spanish Steps ,...

If you stay longer in Trieste, you could also take a short trip to Muggia. It takes about 30 minutes by bus from the city center. The fishing village doesn't have a lot to...

Monday, 17 July 2017 7:30 a.m. Slept through. Well rested. I sit outside the cave and work on the book that Lisa gave me for Christmas (in 2015). Lisa sleeps until 9:45 a.m. ...

Part 3 of the Grado Trilogy Subtitle: "The Big Feast" View of the harbor - like every year... Saturday, 18.6.2011 I get up a little hungover and yes, Lisa is already up...

Grado - the 2nd So Lisa and I are on a beach holiday in beautiful Grado with Bettina and Christian and their daughter Ella. Sunday, 6.6.2010 7.00 Lisa wakes up on time...

This year, the Italian holiday is once again something special because the travel group has grown. Bettina and Christian are on a beach holiday with their daughter Ella in...

Sunday, 23.6.2002 I wake up and I think I'm going to have a stroke! Aside from the steam, the sun is burning on my head and the temperature in the room is tropical. Out of...

Florence is awesome. We already had time to explore Florence on the first day, but today in the sunshine and spring-like temperatures the city showed its most beautiful side. We...

09/26/23 Today we're having a good night's sleep for once, but unfortunately Jan is still suffering. We set off in a relaxed manner around half past eleven - we'll go across the...

From Lake Constance we went across the Fern Pass with a view of the Zugspitze through Austria to northwest Italian South Tyrol. In 1950, the villages were flooded at Lake...

Our first stop in Sicily is called Cefalù. We head straight from the port in Palermo to the east, as we want to explore Palermo in detail later. Cefalù is a small port city on...

Today it's time to change location again, or as my friends from Cologne (right, Micha - or?) like to say: 🎼 The caravan moves on….! We planned our route to Realmonte so that we...

At 4:00 am, the important message rings out from the on-board speakers that we will reach Palermo in an hour and that breakfast can now be enjoyed one floor below us. We ignore...

Airplane noise wakes us up at 07:00 in the morning. One tourist bomber after another leaves Cagliari heading north, bringing the beach vacationers back to where they came from...

On 26.03. after breakfast, we set off: we drove over the Brenner Pass towards Lake Garda enjoying beautiful scenery. Our first destination: a lunch break near Lazise, where we...

Tuscan Dream Tour 2.0!!! I am back on the road in Tuscany! And I am enjoying being in this beautiful city again. Florence is still an experience today. I feel this city with...

We are approaching Cinque Terre. About 10 km before is the city of Portovenere. We park above the city and then walk down the mountain. The small harbor and...

We then drove to the Monte Argentario peninsula the next day, but it is not very camper friendly as it was raining. You have to go around Porto Ercole, only to find out...

This week we took a city trip and we want to tell you about Ostuni. It was a beautiful, warm morning and we walked through the city without a plan. Saw some funny...

After the city, we wanted to be by the sea again, and our wish came true in Carovigno. We drive on dirt roads past isolated houses until we reach the water. Since it's not...

The next day we visited Lecce, the largest city in the region. It welcomes us with truly magnificent houses Great churches A great classic car A quaint pub,...

And then, near Nardo, it happened as it had to happen. We were on our way to Gallipoli. Drivers in southern Italy are the worst in all of Europe. We have traveled all over...