Can't resist. Have to start with a minor whinge about our hotel. Which is completely unfair because it is a beautiful building in a...

Ok, how many of you knew that James Joyce lived in Trieste and wrote "The Dubliners" here? And some of "Ulysses". And "Portrait of the...

OK, I lied. We aren’t in Trieste yet but having had another spectacular day in Venezia I thought it only fair to share… As I write we are...

Or as some prefer to call it: “The Birmingham of the Mediterranean”. Maybe stretching it a bit! We have been home for 6 months since...