Laika Kreos Motorhome | First time motorhomers full-time year long trip

Eataly – the world of italian food

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By: Marcella

October 2, 2018

Imagine an out of town shopping centre, packed full of stores, leading out left and right offering every imaginable fashion item you could want. Well Eataly is like that but…

Peace amongst the Pine Trees

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By: Marcella

October 1, 2018

Over the last few days we’ve toured the Tuscan countryside discovering sublime scenery and extraordinary towns along the way and we’ll be posting about these over the next few days.…

Acetaia Malpighi, Balsamic Vinegar Barrels

Modena -Aged to perfection

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By: Julian

September 30, 2018

A city of surprising architecture, food, performance cars and Opera singers, as the birth place of the late great Luciano Pavarotti, Modena also sits at the heart of the Parmigiano…

The Palio in Parma, Pasta and Pomodoro

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By: Marcella

September 29, 2018

The Unesco city of gastronomy was next on our radar, the home of Prosciutto di Parma and Parmigiano Reggiano in the heart of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region – Parma. Two of…

Powering Buzz – what keeps us on the road

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By: Marcella

September 28, 2018

Motorhoming full-time now for 10 weeks, a combination of power sources have been absolutely essential to keeping us on the road and enjoying our road trip to the full. From…

Montova (Mantua) an unexpected pleasure

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By: Julian

September 28, 2018

I have to say I knew nothing about Montova until the other day. It’s a reasonably sized town sat between Verona and Parma and is approached through the wetlands and…

Roman Verona – The ancient city of treasures

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By: Marcella

September 25, 2018

Like the Dolomites and Florence, Verona was always on our list of must see locations, so we were both looking forward to exploring the city and we weren’t to be…

Soave and Sophisticated (the wine not us!)

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By: Marcella

September 24, 2018

Our journey to Soave at the foot of the Monti Lessini mountains left us in no doubt at all that once again on this trip we were entering ‘wine country’,…

Driving a Motorhome for the first time

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By: Marcella

September 23, 2018

J As a former military driver with an HGV2 licence (now lapsed), I have driven on some of the best and worst roads in the world so felt confident about…

Vicenza, Palladian City of Splendour

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By: Marcella

September 20, 2018

Venetian splendour and Palladian architecture put on their best show for us as we drove into the UNESCO world heritage city of Vicenza in Northern Italy. Bathed in the late…