Italy/ Portugal stuff
Hi Eric & Lorraine
When we toured Italy last year we went to Pisa what a stunning place!
We stayed at a place called Viareggio about 20 kms away and travelled in, Pisa's worth five stars of your time and money, and in it's own way Viareggio is a great place.. it's an Italian seaside resort with.plenty of hotels and B/B
I can't say anything about Rome as we bypassed it on the way down to Sicily, visions of riding through Barcelona and getting lost every 100 yards were prominent in my memory and put me off no end!
On the way back from Sicily we were going to Firenze but were chasing the rain so did a bit of a detour.
Have you been to Italy before, if you have then ignore the next bit?
As we came from Spain we got to Genova OK, (Genova is massive) but after that we got lost because we were looking for signs to Rome (silly us!) and there weren't any, you had to take sign posts to La Spezia (course we knew that.....NOT) so when you make mind which way to go make notes of other towns and not just the ones you
think will be sign posted. I think to relying on the road numbers just seems easier.
If you are making for Milan, Genova then Pisa the road from Genova to Pisa is ace its sooooooo fast once you have come out of the tunnels.
The road conditions are a bit hit and miss from very good to very bad, petrol?s dear as with most things almost the same as the UK.
Portugal?ummm, well we know the bit around the Algarve really well as we often ?pop over? there for a mini break..in fact we are going on December 8th for a couple of nights!
We have booked Portugal with this lot
http://www.lastminute.com/ but normally go with
http://www.bancotel.com/scripts/Clientes.dll/CambioIdioma , with Bancotel you can normally find B&B or failing that room only especially in Spain & Portugal for under 50 euros for the both of you, we have had some great bargains and the hotel we have booked for the 2 nights in Portugal looks brilliant for the price.
Well that?s it for now if you want to know any thing else just ask, and don?t forget if you have time and still want to meet up next year that will be brilliant
Regards from the sunshine
Paul