Yesterday morning we got up early, had b/fast, checked out of our hotel and then headed to the train station which was about a 10min walk from our hotel.Thank god the train station wasnt as busy as it was when we had a look the day before it was pretty huge and would have been very hard to get around with our suitcases had it been packed.We found our platform (there's 30 platforms) and as we had seat numbers we find to find which cart we were in etc. Along the wa...

Yesterday morning we got up early, had b/fast, checked out of our hotel and then headed to the train station which was about a 10min walk from our hotel.Thank god the train station wasnt as busy as it was when we had a look the day before it was pretty huge and would have been very hard to get around with our suitcases had it been packed.We found our platform (there's 30 platforms) and as we had seat numbers we find to find which cart we were in etc. Along the wa...

On our way out this morning, we passed just near our hotel a building that we didn't know what it was but whenever we walked past there was heaps of people or tour groups out front of, today we decided to go have a look inside and it turned out to be Santa Maria Della Vittoria a church build in 1605 which was pretty amazing from inside and not much to look at from the outside.I was very excited to find out later that the church was in Dan Brown's book - Angels an...

Woke up pretty early this morning and headed upstairs for the breakfast that is included.. it was very simple - some pastries, toast, yoghurt etc but it was nice. We headed off to get on the hop on hop off bus to go to the colosseum - our first stop of the day. We did a walk around the outside and as we were about to brave the line ups to get inside we were approached to see if we'd like to join a tour group who would take us around and give us the history etc...

What a longggg trip to get here but we made it! We left Brisbane on Saturday afternoon at 245pm and it was an 8hr flight to Singapore. We flew Singapore Airlines and the plane was really impressive. We each had our own TV with heaps of TV shows and Movies to watch, we spent the whole 8hrs watching this. When we got to Singapre it was about 9pm local time and we had 4hrs till we got to board the next flight so we just had a wonder around the shops and had a coff...