EUROPE 2025

This is the place of Sues 60th birthday and as such we booked a boutique hotel room for two nights next to the famous Rialto Bridge. Our most expensive accomodation so far. However you only turn 60 once. We took the water ferry to the hotel and on the walk to the hotel Mark was pick pocketed. They managed to get two bank cards and about €40. Luckily we figured out within minutes what had happened and locked both cards without them being used. So all good. The Hotel.. Well!

Still trying to slow the pace, so booked 4 days in Milan, however our time here did not begin well. The apartment we’d rented had a strong odour, a washing machine we desperately needed that wouldn't start, a terrible bed, and an unhelpful host. After returning on the first day to the same smell, a still-broken washer, and then a power outage to the whole apartment, and with no response from the owner, we’d had enough. We packed up in the cold and dark and found a new apartme