Good morning Rome, we go to breaky at 7.30 am as we have a massive 6 hour walking your today, Ciarra will be in the hotel lobby to pick us up at 8.45 am. We leave to make our way to one of the famous monuments in the main square & just behind it is one of the most sites in the world - The Colloseum.. To look at it life is amazing , it's huge & to think that there was so much fighting torture & killing at this famous landmark & it was all in the na...

The day starts early as we have a 3 hour Vatican tour booked so we hurry to to the buffet breakup upstairs, it's nothing like an Aussie breaky though there are always 3 cereals ,yogurt , lots and lots of Danishes which the boys love , hard boiled eggs & always salami, ham & cheeses& heard bread( oh how we miss fresh soft bread) even the tea tastes so different over here, in Rome I'm Actually on the black tea as I just can't do room temperature milk n...

We were all up early today as we had to be gone from Tuscany early to drive to Florence to catch the train to Rome. We catch the high speed bullet train & we go 260kms per hour & the train just glides through.....when we arrive in Rome it's hot & muggy again & we are greeted by our driver whom drives us around & around on circles ( even he doesn't even know where the hotel is) the streets are so narrow that the Mercedes van just scrapes throu...

Today was a leisure day so the Hiltons decide to go into the town of Montecatini for morning tea, which consists of espresso, cappuccino & beautiful cakes.. OMG I'm in heaven , you all know that I love cakes......it's very unusual drinking coffee standing up here in italy as in Australia we are so not used to it ....the coffee is good really good but I suppose any great coffee would taste fabulous after 3 weeks of none at all( I remember some of our friends t...

We drive for over 1 hour & we arrive at Pisa where thee are thousands of tourists & we are welcomed to 37 degree heat.....The leaning tower of Pisa is such a sight in life , amazing at the lean that it actually has, it's a stunning building really really pretty. Flea markets line the sidewalks of the tower where you can buy anything from leather handbags to leaning nip glasses , it's so funny... We walk over to the ticket office pay our 60 euros for the 4...