Team 96 Italian Job 2017

Hope you are looking at all our pics in Photo Gallery. Farewell to Imola - again up with the larks and on the road at 6.45am with no breakfast and a journey of 135 miles to Venice. We watched a beautiful sunrise as we travelled north east along a country route avoiding all motorways and large towns, and skirting huge lagoons along the Adriatic east coast. We made good time and managed a quick stop for coffee and croissants served by a very bountifull Italian waitress - we managed to extract ourselves without incident and arrived at 11am at the Tenuta Santome Vinyard in the Treviso Area. This is a family who are good friends of The Italian Job, who provided a plentiful supply of wine and Prosecco for our evening meal today. We had a tour of their new and very impressive facilities and were entertained to a sumptuous lunch (strictly no alcohol) with a viewing of The Italian Job Film available in their Theatre. Their wines are available from specialist Italian food and wine retailer in Maidenhead - details on request. A short drive to our super Hotel at Treviso, with a railway station next door and a 20 minute ride to the heart of Venice. Naturally, we are getting quite exhausted at the breakneck pace of this expedition, and walking is becoming just too much. We caught the Grand Canal River Taxi from Santa Lucia Station to Rialto Bridge and hobbled to St Mark's Square (no mean feat for gentlemen of our age in this maze of alleyways and bridges) - with our only priority a massive ice cream cornet. Back to the Hotel for our Campari's before Dinner and early to bed for a ridiculously early start on Wednesday - leave at 6am for a 260 miles drive to Turin to arrive by 11.30 am for the excitement of driving around the Lingotto Rooftop Track in Turin. Night Night ......