Rome, the Eternal City and home of the Vatican City, St Peter's Cathedral, and the Colosseum. We wasted no time in setting off for a walking tour when we reached Rome. We were introduced to Rome's metro system as we will be on our own most of the time this time round. So we went up the train and started our walking tour at Piazza del Popolo. This is where the twin churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto are. Totally identical! After a ...

We reached Florence pretty quickly from Pisa. Camping Girasole was the first of the "Camping" series of accomodations we are going to stay in for our Italian leg of the journey. The layout and feel of the place was just too nice! The restaurants, cafes and ice creameries were blended in well with the surrounding natural environment. We were given some time to settle ourselves into our rooms and then gathered for our typical Italian dinner in one of the...

Finally to the country where we were gonna spend the most number of days in, ITALY, the football crazy country. 1st stop was a short stopover in Pisa. I'm sure everyone has heard about the iconic leaning tower of Pisa, and thats exactly where we made a beeline for, the moment we arrived at the location. We were briefly interrupted by fake leather goods pirates whom swarmed us the moment we got down from the bus. But we had no trouble brushing them off our backs...

As we set off from Paris, we really felt like we didn't want to leave such an amazing place yet but all these thoughts were dispelled once we were closing in on Switzerland. After we woke up from our short slumber in the bus, we found ourselves travelling in a picture perfect natural arena. View of lakes and lagoons and of course the snow capped mountains took our breath away. We couldn't wait for us to get to our next destination, Lauterbrunnen! When we finall...

We had to meet up with the group on the 1st day in Paris. Being our first time in Europe, it was a challenge to find our way to the hotel. The lack of English signs and also to try to understand the Metro system wasn't that simple made us scratch our heads for quite a while. But alas, we managed to uncomplicate things and embark on out journey towards Paris city from the airport. We reached Sovereign Hotel with a map some directions from helpful Parisians. We w...