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| Amalfi Fly Drive - driving notes, hotels, pics |
| Notes on driving on the Costiera d’Amalfi.
The roads are narrow but, in comparison to Irish roads, well-signposted. Many country roads have high stone kerbs, prone to scuff wheel trims if you get too close.
The Italians are brisk drivers and they have a low tolerance of bumbling tourists. That’s their problem and you should condition yourself to ignore the cacophany of horns behind you. It goes without saying that you should keep a sharp lookout through the driving mirror and both wing mir... |
| Amalfi Fly Drive - part 1 |
| Arguments start in April. The bone of contention is the same every year: on our summer jaunt to the continent do we (a) go by ferry and take the car? (b) fly in and hire a car? or (b) shun driving and, instead, use whatever public transport we find? In the event, we’ve done all three and enjoyed ourselves. The first course of action is not really an option, time-wise, if you intend holidaying in southern Europe, not to mention the problems of judgment and visibility when you’re driving a vehicl... |
| A Hungary Feeling… |
| ..came round Ernie Whalley stealing. So off he went to explore the old triangle of Buda, Óbuda and Pest
Budapest as such has only existed since 1873 when the towns of Buda and Óbuda, located on the hilly west bank of the Danube, and Pest, on the flat plain on the other side, merged to form the capital. The new city rapidly expanded – today it houses almost a quarter of Hungary’s total population – developing into a vibrant European capital and embracing an outward-looking cosmopolitan philoso... |
| Le Camping |
| Someday soon – but not yet - I’ll be too old for camping holidays in France. ‘Victoria’, my venerable Land Rover 110 is permanently kitted out with Easy Loader and J-Bars and it only takes a couple of minutes to stow ‘Beeswing’, my sea kayak up aloft. I have a rooted aversion to lazing on beaches so I figured long ago that it would be good to occupy myself practising bracing and wet exits while my lady soaked up the sun and devoured the novels she doesn’t have time to read the rest of the year. ... |
| Beyond the lagoon |
| Think Veneto, think Venice? Think again. Ernie Whalley forsakes pigeons, gondoliers and Harry’s Bar
Scrabbling with almost indecent haste to arrive at their ultimate destination, the ‘city on the lagoon’, many tourists never get to explore the Veneto. This is a great pity, for the region boasts a wealth of fine cities and towns brim-full of history and art treasures. Consider grand operatic Verona, the setting for Romeo and Juliet; Vicenza, on which Andrea Palladio experimented while he was ... |
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