Welcome To Kosovo – Creative Writing Showcase

I am delighted that ‘Welcome to Kosovo’, a snippet from our very recent travels (about a week ago!) has been featured on author Robert Fear’s ‘Fred’s Blog’ Creative Writing Showcase. Please click the link below to read my piece on this somewhat lesser-known destination. Welcome to Kosovo by Jacqueline Lambert

In Search of the Flying Phallus – Sovana & Pitigliano, Tuscany, Italy

What did the Etruscans ever do for us? Well, for more than half a millennium, they wore togas, brewed wine, built aqueducts and roads, founded hilltop city states and created sculpture and art. They practised human sacrifice and sometimes made prisoners fight one another in a sort of gladiatorial combat. That might sound a lotContinue reading “In Search of the Flying Phallus – Sovana & Pitigliano, Tuscany, Italy”

Travel With Dogs to Albania – What You Need To Know

I would be fibbing if I didn’t say there are easier places to travel to with dogs. However, Albania is a stunning country, full of very kind people, and is definitely worth seeing – particularly now, before it becomes over-developed for tourism. Albania is inexpensive and easily accessible from Italy, Greece and other Balkan countries.Continue reading “Travel With Dogs to Albania – What You Need To Know”

On the Tuscan Run – Evicted Twice in Two Days!

Piedmont into Liguria was the exact opposite of the previous day’s pancake-flat jaunt across the Italian plain. The Autoroute Azzura, through the Appenine mountains and Genoa, presented us with a hair-raising few hours of tunnels and vertiginous viaducts. Impatient truckers, who objected to our top speed of 45 mph (70 kph), added an extra frissonContinue reading “On the Tuscan Run – Evicted Twice in Two Days!”