Venice - Town of Drama Apologies for those following the blog but we hit Venice - town of drama and things started to go wrong. Most importantly in Venice we encountered a particularly nasty computer virus. It wiped the computer clean (or so it seemed) and we thought for a while we had lost all our pictures! After several hours trying to download anti virus a that I thought I already had (thanks Telstra), I realised that my credit card had been blocked bec...

Florence 2 (by Sarah) We slept in this morning (well I did) and then I had the leftover burger I ordered last night at the Hard Rock Café for breakfast. Then we made our way to the hop on-hop off Florence open bus tour. First of all we just sat on the bus and went around so we could see all the places that we would want to get off. I spotted the store I wanted to go into in Rome and we decided to stop there first on the second round for a bit of shopping!...

Pisa The mood took us today to visit Pisa, we took off for the station in the heat - the picture of the pigeons is to show that even they thought it was hot! They were all sitting in the sun, resting on the ground like they were in a nest, I assume to keep cool. We were helped on our very long trek to the station by our old friend Gelati (flavours today included fruit of the forest and choc chip for Sarah and lemon and strawberry for me). Sarah who is becom...

Florence So, we arrived in Florence on the high speed train, no joke, this train goes ear-poppingly fast! We started off from the Termini station a little worried because we were seated in separate carriages - I'm not saying it was user error but I did use self-serve machine to buy the ticketsJ After pestering every Trenitalia staff member we could find over two separate days, we finally got on board and decided to take our chances. I have to say that bein...

The Colosseum We spent time today on our last big ticket destination in Rome before we leave for Florence - The Colosseum. We decided to take the skip the line option again as most of the very long line was fully in the sun, this ended up being worthwhile as the skip the line ticket sellers were selling tours for an extra 3 Euro so we got a bit of education while we were at it. There are few words to describe the size of this building, stadium, amphitheatre. ...