Day fourteen and we took the opportunity to get a bit of a sleep in before heading to Venice. After force feeding ourselves all of the food (2L tub of gelati included), beer and Powerade that we had stocked up on, we set off into town with our packs on. We arrived at the station about 40 minutes later and found the morning tickets to Venice had all sold out. We purchased one for later in the day and checked our packs in at the station to save walking around with...

Day thirteen was dedicated to Florence. We had a big list of things to see so the walking shoes were on and ready. We made the decision to just explore as we were a bit museumed out. The first major site we saw was the Santa Maria Del Fiore cathedral which was stunning. The outside of the building has so much detail, more detail on the outside than there is inside. We climbed the Cappolla (dome) which had something like 496 stairs. This one in my opinion was ...

Day twelve and our last day in Rome as we move on to Florence. Made the decision to leave later and spend a little more time in Rome. Disappointed that we were unable to go to the Villa Borghese museum (we needed to book our visit and it was booked out till the following week) we decided to walk through the gardens of the Villa Borghese and visit the Galleria Nationale D'Arte Moderna and the Maxxi museum. Both were fantastic, very different from each other th...

Day eleven and we forced ourselves out of bed to make the most of our time in Rome. By the time we left the building after breakfast and getting some things from the supermarket it was a bit late - the crowds had swarmed to the Colosseum. Thankfully, our trusty Rome Pass allowed us to skip the massive queue and we went straight in to the 'C'. I can see why the Italians haven't adopted the Aussie abbreviations for their stadiums - it doesn't quite work as well as...

Day ten and we started very early on the wise advice of my old man. We caught the number 19 tram after a breakfast feast. Within fifteen minutes we were walking under the arches into the Citta del Vaticano. Upon entering the square we were greeted with thousands of seats, a large stage and an enormous photo of the Pope. After asking a few questions we found out that 40 odd thousand people had been at the square a few days earlier for an address from the Pope. A...