THIS is the largest island in the Mediterranean and the biggest region in Italy. It's also home to many of Europe’s volcanoes!

VULCANO! How can it look so beautiful but smell so bad?

SOMETIMES you just need to sit down and do nothing for just a little while. That's what Sardinia is for.

THE words ‘bike’ and ‘holiday’ are not two that I would ever put together, but here I am with my ‘go as fast as I dare’.

THE words bike and holiday are not two that I had ever put together. But I did it. I’ve cycled across Umbria.

THE minute I arrive in Tuscany, I feel happy. And within an hour I’ve eaten my first Italian meal just like in Eat, Pray, Love.

PULL up a stool, dangle your legs and get stuck into the bar snacks. But first a drink...anywhere around the god Neptune.