This morning we had another early one. It was our last day in Rome, so the plan was to get breakfasted and ready to leave as early as possible, however we didn't want to be carrying our luggage around for the entire day while we finished off our sightseeing, so we asked at the hotel if we could leave it there and come back later to collect it. Which, thankfully, they were more than happy to do. So, we left the hotel and made our way quickly to the first of o...

Today was the earliest start we've had since our first day started the day before the day itself. If that makes any sense at all. We had a pre-6:00 start in order to get on the coach for 6:45, which ended up arriving at the hotel shortly after 7:00, to take us in a round-about way to a part of Rome we could have walked to quicker. Disappointed that we would miss our breakfast (Which they begin serving at 7:00) we planned to ask for a quick sit down before th...

Today started off fairly lazily, despite the undeniably pleasurable experience of waking up at around 6:45 to the smell of freshly baked bread. We eventually made it down to breakfast around two hours later and had another hearty breakfast. On the agenda today was one thing - the Palatine Hill. Referred to on local signage simply as 'The Archaeological site,' this is a huge, partially restored area which was once home to the leaders of Rome. Although our ...

We awoke this morning at 7:00, having had a fairly decent amount of sleep. Having nowhere we needed to be urgently, we slowly got ready and went down to breakfast around an hour later. Breakfast was a continental style buffet, so naturally we took this as a challenge to eat as much as we possibly could without feeling so uncomfortably full we could barely move. Aside from feeling this was a good opportunity to get our moneys' worth, this would ensure that we...

We left home by taxi at approximately 12:15 on the morning of Monday 19th March, 2012. Having been up since 7:00 AM the previous morning, we were already quite tired, particularly as we'd only had 4 hours sleep on the night of our wedding. At this point we were a little over 12 hours away from our destination, so opportunities to sleep were never going to be abundant. Luckily, not only do I consider the lack of sleep to be a part of the adventure of travel,...