How to save the world - fly more!

We took trains and buses from Malaga to Milan. This was nearly £400 more expensive than flying. Had we flown and used the money saved to offset carbon emissions we could have covered nearly half a plane load. If another couple had done the same we could have made the whole flight carbon neutral

Barcelona is a brilliant city, I cant think of another that has such great architecture, restaurants, parks and stunning beaches. We managed to get a cheap hotel in one of those neighborhoods where people search the bins for cardboard or stand on street corners with bling and two mobile phones selling small packets of stuff. Even the girls and some older ladies got all dressed up in fish net stockings just to hang around on the street

In Milan we managed an opera in La Scalla. We got gallery tickets with a somewhat restricted view. Seated we could only see the top left corner to the curtain and none of the stage so we had to watch the whole opera standing up but it was a wonderful experience and as you can see we dressed for the occasion.

The Duomo in Milan and the Leaning Tower of Pisa have both been cleaned up and look like new. We went up on the roof of the Duomo to watch the sun set. Climbing up the leaning tower is a weird experience,  you feel the lean!

I used a faulty loo on the train to Naples. Somehow it was open to the air flow beneath the train. I didn't notice until I starting weeing and it did a u-turn back into my face!!. Still once I had got washed and changed we had a great pizza in Naples

We are now in an apartment for a week in a village just outside Sorrento.