Italy Day Trip - Part One - Bergamo

As promised ages ago the pictures from our day trip to Bergamo in Italy. The fights cost us £7 each return and Dave kindly organised it all for us! We were in Italy just 24 hours, but we had brilliant fun, here are a few pictures.

We arrived late afternoon, and after checking in to the hotel went for a walk up to the old town, that is the old town looming ominously on the hill! The train below was the easiest way to get up to the top.

The old town consists on lovely old streets, cakes shops and cafes.

Half way along the main street is a square with the main Church in it. It is a wonderfully ornate and slightly overwhelming structure inside. The incense is strong enough to make you feel ill!

Some stairs at the back of the church lead to what I can only assume was a very strange and creepy art exhibition. The weird images and sounds were enough to freak me out!

Back out in the real world we went to a cafe to recover!

A great place to visit, and you can do it in a weekend from Bristol airport.

Cakes!

Me returning from old town.

Storms in Southern England

If you had not noticed it's been a bit stormy here today! Here are a few pictures from Teignmouth this afternoon at high tide.

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Me with another pint!

The full moon low in the sky. Taking this one made me realise I need a better camera.

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Me testing the water (which was warmer than the pool!)

Me again.

Our hotel at night.

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My favourite picture of the trip for some reason...

An experiment in photography...

This one was taken just as we arrived on the island, which is why I look a bit pale still! This pint of Cruzcampo (not Fosters as the glass suggests) was the best beer I have had for a long time, knowing there was a whole week of holiday in front of me!

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Trip to Puerto de Soller.

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Us on a boat trip from Cala Dor

Another locked church, I don't think the Spanish like tourists wandering around their churches.

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We stayed at a resort called Cala dor, on the east coast of the island. The hotel (the Ponent Playa, Cala Ferarra) was fantastic and the perfect setting to do very little in the sun for a week!

Being an island one of the things that is a must is going on a boat trip, we did 2! Here are some pictures from the first trip around the resort.

Holidays

It would be almost impossible to convey how much I enjoyed being on holiday, and also the little mini holiday we had with friends the weekend after. So instead of typing one huge post there will be a week of pictures and comments from Majorca, and a week from Bergamo in Italy...

I must also mention I sacrificed the 2 most exciting weekends of Grand Prix action to be on holiday... I didn't mind really, but next year I am going to plan things a bit more carefully...

Go Button!

End of the Summer...

It clearly is the end of the summer, despite a nice day yesterday. I can feel it in the mornings, the flat is really cold! But I don't mind too much as we are off on holiday to Majorca on Saturday for a week, yay!

Have had a good few weeks since the last exepod post, had a fun game of Poker at the Double Locks (I lost), have been watching a lot of motor racing, F1, BTCC and even some of the ALMS series from the states. I have also rediscovered my GT Pro Series game on the Wii, and am excited at the launch of an official F1 game for the wii next month.

We also went to a fun walk to Turf Locks one evening...

Will try and blog after the holiday with some pictures, and if anyone has any ideas for the next exepod, or wants to help in recording it let me know, would be nice to have more than my voice on it.

(Steam train whizzing past Powderam)