We are due to travel on our second Grand Tour of Italy from tomorrow. In 2007 we drove to Siena and we were away for 10 days. This time it's a tad longer as our itinerary includes entries for 'Week 3'. The trip will take us through England, across France, into Germany, through Switzerland, and then down through Italy all the way to Sicily.
It's all been booked online mainly via www.laterooms.com and www.holidaylettings.co.uk with a few hotels.com and hotel.info thrown in for good measure. Our home is occupied while we are away as the rest of the family are not travelling with us. This is a bit of 'we' time and includes a Romantic retreat with a Villa on the mountainside and a pool with an astonishing view in Sicily for a week, and four days in the Romantic Florence. As well as taking in Arras, Merzig, Lake Como, Salerno, Naples, Bologna, Strasbourg, and of course Calais.
For those of you that scoff at the idea of staying in Calais; we have booked a room at the upmarket Hotel Meurice. And if we have any money left at the end of the Grand Tour then I suspect that we will indulge in some excellent French cuisine while we are there. I have even packed my watercolour pencils and leather bound journal for the trip.
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