the grand tour continues!

alright, so i'm going to see if blogger will let me pick up where we left off, somewhere on the drive to venice, we can even see the city floating on the horizon! so where's the car park??

can you make this one out? it's one of my favourite venice photos, two dogs going for a 'walk'!! what an incredible place venice is, i completely fell in love with it...

i know i'm only putting one photo per place and technically this is still venice, but look at it! it's one of the islands, burano, where they make incredible lace... apparently all of the women on the island make it, and every one only knows one of 7 stitches and the items just get sent around with everyone doing their particular stitch. what a knitalong that would be...!

then we drove for a few hours to tuscany, staying at greve in chianti, half way between sienna and florence. it was heavenly and perfect and it kills me to think it's out there right now whilst i'm sat here in my little london box... this was the view from the barn. the view from my window right now is a tree with someone else's house, identical to mine. sigh.

sienna, one of my favourite visited places. the cathedral in particular (and the newly discovered crypt) is amazing.

and this was florence. we went to florence the day after sienna, and i felt sad for florence because, well, to us it didn't really compare... but it was still amazing and won our hearts eventually. my enthusiasm that day was dampened slightly by the fact that the 20 mosquieto bites i had on my legs made my muscles tighten and made me look like i had the plague!! ahhhh, happy memories!!

ok, blogger seems to have had enough of photos again... you will be glad to hear though that the grand tour has not concluded! i will be back soon will knitting photos - bear is nearly finishd and today i go stash enhancing!!!

becks x