Sunday 18 November 2012
Passing through MC seemed to be some sort of car show on... couldn't find the show girls though. Poorly organised! 
Sunday 18 November 2012
MC casino, front & back (or back & front?). Last time I was here watched some kind of race. Too old for that now!
Sunday 18 November 2012
Unattended items on the streets of Monte Carlo. So bike is locked, but would you leave a PA rack like that elsewhere?
Sunday 18 November 2012
Monte Carlo harbour. Exclusive? Luxurious? Just look at those yachts packed like sardines & make your own mind up!
Sunday 18 November 2012
Approaching Monaco. Passing by so might as well have a look, but don't think we'll be having lunch here!
Sunday 18 November 2012
Back in France, but the beach here in Menton isn't much to write home about. Next!
Saturday 17 November 2012
Post-ride today. I guess you'd have to be a @simongerrans or @Orica_GreenEDGE fan to get this!
Saturday 17 November 2012
Today's ride: tootle the Sanremo bike path with Pratiwi. Then smash fest to Poggio. Then... well - when in Italy 
Saturday 17 November 2012
Hmmmmm... time for some new cleats perhaps?
Friday 16 November 2012
Dinner in Sanremo. Almost the final one in Italy. Lots of prosciutto, barely cooked steak & little treat for dessert.
Friday 16 November 2012
Pratiwi's dinner: looks like a half kilo steak, 5cm thick with only outside 2mm cooked. Melts in the mouth. Sadly I had to help... a lot!
Friday 16 November 2012
Back from a fantastic ride above Sanremo. From sea up to over 1000m altitude. Bit chilly up there, but can't complain for mid November!
Thursday 15 November 2012
Sanremo harbour on a rather nice afternoon. We like it here - the place has a really nice relaxed atmosphere.
Thursday 15 November 2012
@mcewenrobbie stop taking the piss on @Strava & post it all, not just snippets with the KoMs. Unless 6km a week is really all you can do! 
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Views from today's ride in the hills above Genoa. Very pleasant... if you can put up with getting in & out of city!
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Best climb ever today: 205m vertical in 560m distance. Over 36% average! Or... bad GPS data. Which do you think?
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Just driving along, stopping for a snap every now & then. These are from the coast road between Portofino & Genoa.
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Quick look at a very quite Portofino. Beautiful in off season like this. Really nice local fish for lunch too.
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Passing through Santa Margherita Ligure on the way to Portofino.
Tuesday 13 November 2012
After a week in Manorola, some final views from Cinque Terre as we take the 'slow road' North.
Sunday 11 November 2012
Here's Riomaggiore. I have to say, really very similar to Manarola.
Sunday 11 November 2012
Ah, ha! We've had some overcast conditions this week, but finally an (almost) clear evening here in Manarola. Nice 
Sunday 11 November 2012
... and here's Manarola by day. Just killing a little time while waiting for a train to the next little village.
Friday 9 November 2012
Winter must be coming. After our walk today (Manarola to Corniglia - very nice) was too chilly for a beer. Had to buy a bottle of red!
Friday 9 November 2012
This week stayed in Manarola which was pretty handy. Nice to be able to get some dusk shots of the village like this.
Friday 9 November 2012
These funicular-like mono-rail tracks are dotted about the hillside & used to transport grapes during harvest. Steep!
Friday 9 November 2012
Discovering the coastal path between Manarola & Corniglia closed, we took the higher option. Steep, but nice views
Friday 9 November 2012
Started off on a hike from Manarola to Corniglia. Didn't get far before realising the 'low road' was closed. Doh!
Thursday 8 November 2012
A few phases of the sunset above Manarola. Well - standing in the little square by the church.
Thursday 8 November 2012
I guess this is pretty much the gateway to Cinque Terre? Road above Riomaggiore, looking North & down to the village.
Thursday 8 November 2012
Lunch in Pontovenere. Just got our order in before the kitchen closed. This is Italy so it must be a late one! Lucky!
Thursday 8 November 2012
We're heading to Cinque Terre today, but on the way dropped in on Pontovenere...
Thursday 8 November 2012
White van man strikes again! http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/... I've said it before: what other sport sees elites injured by the public while training? 
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Couple of laps between Grosseto & coast this arvo: 62km in under 2 hours. Not helped by fact we walked around 27km in Rome in last few days!
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Dear Mr Obama, does this mean you will close Guantanamo Bay detention camp now? What with it being a key & repeated promise from 2008!
Tuesday 6 November 2012
On the way home, St Peter's by night. Handheld. At 1/8th. After a bottle of wine. With no VR! Goodnight Rome!
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Our final Roman dinner (oops, pics when it's almost done), which we'll take in Piazza Navona & watch the world go by.
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Back in Piazza Navona around dusk.
Tuesday 6 November 2012
I see many tourists using iPad to take pics. If the morons can afford to buy & have space to carry a tablet, why not use a real camera? Doh!
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Break from the antiquities, arts & architecture. Well earned beer in Scholar's Lounge, Rome. Ah, good old Irish Pubs: same the world over
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Snaps from the Colosseum & walk down to Il Vittoriano. Great light later on, but hard to do either justice.
Tuesday 6 November 2012
I seem to have 'lost' the photos from this morning at the Pantheon & Trevi Fountain Guess we need a refund on that coin in the latter
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Oh look, the Greeks have gone on strike. Because nothing helps get yourself out of a hole more than to stop digging for a couple of days!
Monday 5 November 2012
Guided by the hand of god or not... don't think I'd be waving my umbrella this close to a priceless masterpiece!
Monday 5 November 2012
Lucky it wasn't busy, huh? The whole place was pretty much like this, and it's not even tourist season!
Monday 5 November 2012
Another place where looking up is a must. Imagine being an artist & told you only have the ceiling to work with!
Monday 5 November 2012
Vatican Museum doesn't mind one taking pictures (except in the Sistine Chapel), so here's a few... erm... pictures
Monday 5 November 2012
More sensory overload... After St Peters & it's dome at some ungodly hour this morning - yes, I know - now we enter the Vatican Museum.
Monday 5 November 2012
Back outside. Statues & Swiss Guard. Despite this being Italy. And the Swiss being a neutral country. Confused?
Monday 5 November 2012
Experience of climbing to top of this dome is worth it in itself. View from the top isn't bad either, even if cloudy.
