Vroom By The Sea
The summer before my daughter was born I returned to Italy to ride through the sunny parts of Italy on a Vespa the same colour as Donatella Versace.
If the trip that became Vroom with a View was like an old B&W movie, this one was in Technicolor.
I christened the Vespa Marcello. The Italians loved him and showed me another side to their country I wouldn't have otherwise seen.
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The UK publication of Vroom by the Sea is only a few days away now. And my publishers have got into the spirit of things by running a competition to win a trip for two to Positano.
I've got to say, I love Positano. It's one of those places where you can feel as though you've stepped back into a 1950's movie and Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastrioanni are your new best friends.
The other thing I love about this competition is how easy it is to enter.
You just have to visit this web page and fill in your details.
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A lot of coastal Sardinia is inaccessible so I had to cut through the wild mountains in the middle of the island to get to Cagliari. In the wildest and emptiest part, near Meana Sardo, I took to riding without a helmet.
I got caught, of course. The carabinieri had set up a road block to nab bandits and got me instead. I was the first Australian they'd ever met so they let me off with a warning. But not before posing for this cautionary photo.
Check out more pictures from the trip here
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