The Tortoise and the Hare

6/6/2025

For all of our hi-tech drone technology nowadays, I doubt we’d ever be able to make a more enjoyable travelogue of Italy as we follow the glamorous young Liz Allsop in a stylish E-type Jaguar as she crosses the country in a sort of race, but not really, with Gino Gottarelli who is at the wheel of a lorry barely capable of making a minimum speed limit never mind a maximum one. As both make their way, they encounter each other whilst the accompaniment plays us a wide variety of Italian (and other) popular and classical music. Aside from being quite a testament to the construction of the Autostrada Del Sole through some of the more hostile geography of this mountainous land, it also serves to show off just how beautiful Italy can be - both in it’s ancient towns and villages with the pink ston