We left Firenze this morning which was a bit of a downer as it was a blast. A little jewel of a city and such nice people at our B&B made our 2 days there very memorable. Then my greatest fear arrived - driving in Italy. Everything on the left side mixed with easily the most aggressive and impatient drivers imaginable. We got a couple of cabs to the Hertz office. Our driver was a smoking hot leather clad Italian diva who looked more at home on the cover of Vo...

After a great nights sleep and good feed the night before (braciole and verdure di griglia - Italians take on meat and veg) we woke to another flawless blue sky. We had breakfast in the grand lounge of our B&B which was a massive smorgasbord. The girls feasted on eggs, salami, cheese, prociutto, cake and pastries whilst I stuck to toast as I had not seen standard bread since we left home. One thing the Italians do better than anyone is coffee (albeit tepid). ...

We left Rome today via the Frecciarossa bullet train which had us in Firenze in 90 minutes. There is no real order in Italy I am quickly realising. Trying to get 2 kids, 4 cases and a stroller on a train via a door a dozen people are trying to get in at once was very hairy and once on the train the chaos continues as you try to stow your bags whilst everyone else feels waiting for 30 seconds may be life threatening. One bonus is though you get served real espress...

Well it's our last day in this amazing (and sometime overbearing) city and it was a hard decision to make what to see so we asked ourselves what sight was our number 1 must see and thankfully they were next to each other - the mighty Flavian amphitheater known to the modern world as The Colosseum and the centre of the known universe 2,000 years ago the Roman Forum. So it was back for another jaunt on the metro but before that we got what is called a Roma Pass wh...

Another day another wonder - seems to be how it is in Rome. Well we took the plunge and used the Metro today and two things came from it. One the only thing our Metro has in common is trains are involved. If you miss a train you only wait two minutes for the next (and it's on time). The second thing is we have no hope of lugging all our bags down the 3 sets of stairs so again our savior Salome has come to our rescue again and has organized a car to take us to th...