Drive carefully

We've travelled a good few kilometers in the last seven years of this project without too much incident.

Rather like a footballer who passes a whole season without getting a yellow card, it was with some dismay we received an official fine through the post last week.

Which should serve as a reminder to all those independent travellers out there leaving their credit card details with car hire firms.

We'd never heard of the Comune di Castagneto Carducci, but they now have 68 euros of our hard earned cash, all this for exceeding the 110 kmh speed limit by 9 kmh. That's almost 8 euros per kilometer.

A bit excessive ref, but rules is rules.

Gutted.