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Day 21. Furlo Gorge
I can’t believe I didn’t know that sunflowers follow the sun. As we were driving back from the gorge, I happened to notice that the sunflowers I saw yesterday were all facing in the opposite direction. I googled it and only the young ones do this. S thinks it’s because they get old and stiff…
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Day 20. Conero Riviera
I’d been looking forward to exploring this area. Conero is a hilly peninsula to the south of Ancona and consists of woodlands on the top, plunging white cliffs and white pebbly/sand beaches. The marketing blurb describes it as the “Pearl of the Adriatic”. The lady in the tourist information centre in Sirolo was extremely helpful…
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Day 19 – San Marino
Today we added to Steve’s list of visited countries (73 now. Very nerdy.) San Marino is a tiny country with a fierce heart. Liberty is mentioned on its flag and is it’s motto. They also have very attractive car number plates. The main (some may say only) attraction is the castle that is perched on…
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Day 18 – Mondolfo and Marotta
I was beginning to think I’d never get to have a swim this trip. It’s been so hot I’ve been dreaming of plunging into an ice cold pool. The one day I could have a swim in a cold mountain lake, I didn’t bring my swim things – grrr! After an awful journey yesterday I…
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Day 17-Santa Maria Della Versa/Mondolfo
Breakfast at Bosco Longhino was very welcome. A cornucopia of delights awaited us including crepes and Nutella – yum. Danila took us to see the bottling of the wine which had now finished it’s process and gave us a bottle with strict instructions not to open it until at least 5 months. Christmas wine, how…
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Day 16. Mercantour National Park/Santa Maria Della Verza
We have spent the past few days with some members of our walking group in the Mercantour National Park in Southern France about an 11/2 hour’s drive from Nice. It’s a beautiful park with great hiking . The area was devastated by a storm back in 2020 and work still continues on the roads and…
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Day 9. Cinque Terre – Corniglia to Riomaggiore
We’ve done it! All the paths we could hike have been hiked. As with the first day, today we did two sections together and it was brutal. Following true “mad dogs and Englishmen “ tradition, we ended up starting our walk close to midday so had the added difficulty of very hot sun and I…
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Day 8. Monterosso-Levanto
Flipping heck. I thought the train yesterday morning was full but today really took the biscuit. When we arrived at the station it was swarming with people trying to buy tickets. As we already had ours, in order to get past the hoards I naughtily ducked under a barrier, only to get my walking poles…
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Day 7. Walking the Cinque Terre – Monterosso to Corniglia
For anyone who hasn’t heard of the Cinque Terre, it’s 5 pretty coastal villages connected by a path that weaves its way through ancient terraces and looks out over the sea. It’s iconic and it’s been on our “ to do” list for some time. We would have preferred to walk it during the Spring…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
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- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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