alan h's activity

I'm planning my route down for a months visit in July. I travel through Switzerland as its a convenient route to the Lake Maggiore/Lake Orta area.

I logged on this morning to my local webcam, to look at the snow on the ski slopes. [When I'm in UK I like to see something of what its like at my place in the hills]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14995588

Loved the note about changing the locks!

I have just got back from my latest trip to Italy, and thought some of you might be interested to hear about a Swiss hotel that we stayed in on the way down.

For many years now I have used the likes of 'mappy', 'via michelin' etc for calculating different routes down to Italy - for us its a part of our holiday, so we don't always want to take the quickest/shortest route down.  We prefer to vary t

Today I received an email from the Swiss Travel Centre.  The relevant portion is;-

I've just driven down and back for a [much too] short holiday, and feel that an update on how fuel prices look on the way down would be useful to fellow travellers

P&O have introduced a new ferry on the Dover - Calais route - its called the Spirit of Britain.

They seem to have a special offer on at the moment [on this ship only]

Does Tomato soup exist in Italy?

We were feeling a bit under the weather when we went out to Italy 2 weeks ago. 

The route/timings for next years Giro d'Italia have been posted

http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/