Just as I moved back to Scotland at the beginning of 2025, a friend of mine went off to work in Rome for six months. So naturally, I had to take advantage and book a trip to Italy. I went…

Ok, so this post is arriving much later than expected, and some of the Christmas and New Year posts I’ve written in previous years are not going to materialise this time. Life got very busy in the last month or…

I was overdue for a holiday recently, and about a month or two ago, I came across super cheap weekend flights to Rome. So, I just went ahead and booked it spontaneously! I then told my mum, who asked if…

     Europe as a whole is a continent rich in history and culture, full of beautiful sights and architecture, but Rome in particular is a standout when it comes to history (Italy has some other beautiful cities too –…

     Florence – known as Firenze in Italian – may not be the most famous or popular of Italy’s cities, in a country that boasts Rome and Venice, but it’s certainly still one of the most beautiful. Europe is…

     Oh Venice, you are beautiful! I’ve only been to the city once, just for a day, but it was probably my favourite stop of the trip, and I’d definitely go back. It’s a city to just get lost…

     Venice is definitely my favourite city so far on this trip. It’s so different to anywhere else, with all the canals and narrow streets, and so beautiful. We took the ferry over first thing in the morning, and…

     There’s so much to see in Rome that it’s impossible to yet round it all in the space of time we were there, but we made a damn good go of it. As it was a Wednesday, the…

     So much for uneventful travel days! The drive from Florence to Rome is far shorter than any other we’ve done so far, so we arrived there in the early afternoon. We weren’t warned of this though, so everyone…