Vroom By The Sea: The sunny parts of Italy on a bright orange Vespa

The summer before his daughter was born Peter returned to Italy to ride through the sunny parts of Italy on a Vespa the same colour as Donatella Versace, a bright orange 1972 Rally 200 with white go-fast stripes.

The journey was a last two-stroke fling before fatherhood and took him through Sardinia, Sicily and the Amalfi Coast. If the trip that became Vroom with a View was like an old B&W movie, this one was in Technicolor.

Peter christened the Vespa Marcello. He was a hairy-chested, gold me...