Or nearby, or just in Italy. The only requirement is a nice bottle of Chianti wine.

Washed down with a spot of lunch. Today we are exploring Volterra. A beautiful medieval town, more famous now for one scene in that film Twiglett where the shiny vampires appear.

What a beautiful location this is. Situated next to the owners villa and sited on the edge of a green vally, this could almost be the twin of our little cottage in Wales.

This first morning we sat having breakfast on the veranda watching the sun slowly creep across the valley floor. Melodic Italian farmers were yelling their sing song instructions to sheep dogs, some bird of prey yet to be identified soared and cried its shrill call. This is simple and lovely.

Even better – we actually have 3G!! Britain, see, you can deliver signals to rural locations!!

A lazy Sunday planned for now and a chance to test the pool.

Yes welcome to supermarket Saturday, Italian style. Here you are only an obstruction to everyone. The rules, there are no rules. Anyone left alive can leave.

Arrival at the airport at really silly o’clock after only 3.5 hrs kip. And what do you find, “sorry but the food area and shops don’t open until 4am”.

Joy, well one bonus of being so early, not a single person waiting at the security checkpoint.

Next stop, the leaning tower and no mobile or wifi access. For once it will be nice to disconnect from the world and just chill.

Yes my last day of driving 160miles to and from Darlington

And with every last day, comes a last day T-shirt

Yup, either that or Mrs Fogg has just managed to get the indestructible nail polish off after 2 weeks

Oh boy. I fancied trying the gel nail polish and had a lovely deep red put on the other weekend.

Now I know from a good friend that gels are the best nail polish but I’d not realised exactly why. They are, quite literally, indestructible. Two weeks later and still shiny, no chips cracks or chinks. Sounds good yes?

Until you want to take the stuff off. Cue Google. Turns out this is no ordinary stuff. Step one: buff each nail with nail file to break up top shiny layer.
Step two: soak (generously) cotton wool ball in acetone and stick on nail, wrapping in place with a strip of foil.
Step three: repeat for every single nail
Step four: leave for at least 10 minutes, apparently ideally 15
Step five: remove cotton wool and grab orange stick and SCRAPE gel off
Step six: repeat as it won’t work first time!
Or step seven: go find a professional!

Wow. They look lovely but I’ll stick to the old fashioned stuff that comes off easy.
Have I tried yet?? Nope. This might be my Friday night project.