Quirinale Hotel Rome

Weather and Latitude are not allies

There is a popular assumption that if you move to higher latitudes (toward the poles) you can escape the heat, and that by moving to lower latitudes (toward the equator) you can escape the cold....

Hiring a car abroad - it's not just the car insurance you need to worry about

Whilst soaking up to sun on the Costa del Sol you're a world away from the stress and troubles of normal working life. No deadlines, no road rage and no commuter traffic making you late for work....

The Journal of a Gardener in Tuscany - September 2004

Sept 14 2004 – As the good weather continued through early September the lawn grew steadily browner and browner. Yet the nights are already shorter and just when it seemed the last of the lawn would die the heavens opened and rained, and this time it...

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