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.
Monday 5 November 2012
Wondering round St Peter's? Don't forget to look up!
Monday 5 November 2012
Last time I was here you were able to walk up to this statue & touch it. Any ideas why they put a stop to that?
Monday 5 November 2012
A quick look inside St Peter's Basilica. Started over 500 years ago & 120 years to complete. It's a bit big in here!
Monday 5 November 2012
Up at some ungodly hour to... um. Anyhow - they really should move all these chairs - they spoil the tourist snaps
Sunday 4 November 2012
Inside San Carlo al Corso. Compared to the grey day outside, somewhat of colour overload!
Sunday 4 November 2012
The lord's (paper)work is never done
Sunday 4 November 2012
Lunch somewhere around the Spanish Steps. Meat balls & veggies & wine & coffee & cake. Someone enjoyed it
Sunday 4 November 2012
Passing shops in Rome. Can't work out if ability to buy $3000 handbag is proof craftsmanship lives, or of stupidity & wretched excess. Both?
Sunday 4 November 2012
Trinità dei Monti, top of the Spanish Steps: one of the more modest religious places we've seen here.
Sunday 4 November 2012
Pretty grey day in Rome. Seems to warrant some B&W shots as we walk from Piazza del Popolo to the Spanish Steps.
Saturday 3 November 2012
In & around Piazza Navona at dusk. A little sightseeing, a little snack. I have to admit to rather enjoying it here.
Saturday 3 November 2012
Passing St Peter's Square (we stayed in a hotel close by): Pratiwi showing the scale of the pillars that surround it.
Saturday 3 November 2012
'Serious' shot in the pillars surrounding St Peter's Square. From the curve you might gather, the 'square' is not
Saturday 3 November 2012
Centre of Florence to centre of Rome (literally right next to Vatican). Amazingly a completely uneventful drive. 2½ hours. #NoSpeeding