This morning after breakfast we left our hotel in Florence and set off in the hire care for Venice. It was overcast most of the way but didn't rain which was good. It's a really nice drive even though on a highway with mountains and really nice countryside on either side. It took us about 4hours and we didn't even get lost! Coming into Venice though you come over a really big bridge into a little area with the waterbus stop is and heaps and heaps of buses. This i...

When we got up this morning it was overcast and rainy - thank god we did Cinque Terre yesterday! After b/fast we checked out of our hotel and were back in the car off for a big day of driving.. Our first destination was Pisa. We werent too sure on where we were going but tried to follow the signs as best we could. To get out of the Cinque Terre area we had to go up over the mountains, which due to the weather were extremely foggy, in some areas we could only see...

When we got up this morning it was overcast and rainy - thank god we did Cinque Terre yesterday! After b/fast we checked out of our hotel and were back in the car off for a big day of driving.. Our first destination was Pisa. We werent too sure on where we were going but tried to follow the signs as best we could. To get out of the Cinque Terre area we had to go up over the mountains, which due to the weather were extremely foggy, in some areas we could only see...

Today was the day to explore Cinque Terre (the five lands) which are the 5 villages dotted along the coast line of the Italian Riviera. To get there we had to catch the train just down from our hotel. At the train station we got a pass which gives you access to unlimited train trips and to all the walking paths that connect the villages. The train stops at each village and runs right along the coast and through the mountains. We started off with the furtherest ...

Today we had a big day in front of us, we had to get from Sorrento up to La Spezia by train. We had to leave our hotel in Sorrento at 530am, as we checked out the man gave us 'breakfast' to take with us as we'd miss the b/fast included with the hotel which was a really nice touch and kept us going for the day. After catching the local train from Sorrento to Naples (1hr) we then had to change trains and catch the main one from Naples to La Spezia which was about...