Rome 33 1/3 So here's the last day of Rome! We got up and packed all our crap, then dropped our bags off in the hostel's baggage room and went out for our final day of Italian adventures! We'd decided to do another walking tour of Rome (The walking tour we took a few days ago had two routes and we decided to do the other one as well) and so we went and got to the meeting place in time to find that this group was much larger than any of the other walking tours w...

So today is the day we went to Florence. Here's something that you should probably know though. I've found Sarah's favourite hobby: waiting for trains and planes. Sarah had stipulated that we needed to leave at a set time in order to be able to make the train to Florence in time. Unfortunately I managed to run over my bare foot with a heavy-as-all-hell locker and had a little trouble finding a small lock in complete darkness (I didn't want to wake up our entire ...

So we got up early as we'd booked a walking tour of Rome on our first full day. This was probably not the best idea as I got to start the walking tour still drunk from the night before. Our walking tour guide in Paris mentioned that she'd done the walking tour and had loved it so we took her word and had signed up for it as well. So far she had not steered us wrong. Was thing going to be her first folly? The short answer; no. In the five hour tour we saw the...

Time for Italy, people! So I've never had any real interest in Rome. I mean, sure, they had God of War and all that, but nothing about it really blew my skirt up. How wrong I was. Rome contains all the charm that Paris wishes it had. The people are friendly, the buildings are beautiful and the history is rich and flavourful. While it feels like Paris is stuck a few hundred years ago and never wants to come out of its shell, Rome tends to gently remind you of h...