Helen is weak and has gone to bed so I will inform you of our latest activities (I hear people actually read this thing!) As previously informed we travelled from Naples to a little known town, roughly 2 hours from Florence called Castagneto Carducci. This was the location of our (first of many) holidays from our travelling and also the home of my cousin. He also happens to live in a 3 star hotel which appeared to be empty- was in fact full but dont know where t...

Ummmmmmmmmmm.......*thinking* Helen and I have decided we're getting very very old. On our first day in Naples we visited Pompei and did some not so strenuous walking around the ruins with a midday nap (in the 79AD old amphitheatre) we came home pretty damn exhausted. Pompei was an interesting day with lots of old lava damaged buildings, corpses and brothels. Firstly to note, pompei is huge, much bigger than expected and for being such a long time ago they seem ...

Where to start in Rome!? This was Hannah's last stop so we have had to pack a lot in, which we did in impressive style. Ok first of all we went to hang out with the Pope at the Vatican city. This involved waking up ridiculously early so as to avoid the hordes of hideous tourists. Yes I know we are technically tourists, but we're not annoying or Japanese therefore that makes us better than everyone else. We strolled around the Vatican museum and visited the Sistin...

Where to start in Rome!? This was Hannah's last stop so we have had to pack a lot in, which we did in impressive style. Ok first of all we went to hang out with the Pope at the Vatican city. This involved waking up ridiculously early so as to avoid the hordes of hideous tourists. Yes I know we are technically tourists, but we're not annoying or Japanese therefore that makes us better than everyone else. We strolled around the Vatican museum and visited the Sistin...

So this blog is a bit of lie, its actually the 21st today but were getting pretty lazy with this bloggy thing and so I will inform you of what we were doing at that time. We arrived in Venice late in the evening and stepping out from the train station your already hit with Venice as you've always imagined it- beautiful. We got a water bus to the roundabout location of our apartment, yes apartment, were moving up in the world. I contemplated pushing helen into t...