Pisa is only an hour away from Florence by train, so we took a day trip to see the leaning tower of Pisa. It was so worth it to see and so surreal being there having seen so many photos of it! There wasn't much else to do in Pisa, but it was nice to escape the crowds of Florence though. It was a relatively quiet little town, there weren't even signs to the leaning tower from the train station. It was an ordeal in itself trying to find it. The directions were simp...

Florence is lovely. We arrived late in the afternoon, or more early in the evening so basically dropped our bags and head out to get dinner, via the bottle shop.," bought the cheapest and strongest mixed drink in the store - not before asking if we could drink it on the streets. We wandered and found a restaurant where a waiter had 'Chuck Norris' on his name tag, so our choice was made. After telling them we weren't sisters, we told them we actually were, and the...

Elissa and I reunited in the city of love to begin the first part of our adventure through Italy. It very much was an adventure the first night - she came in an hour after me and by the time we got ourselves sorted the last shuttle bus had left and we had no choice but to get a taxi to the local train station and then train in. Was a flat rate of 15 euros to the train station in the cab and a few euros for the train ticket itself. Shuttle wouldve only cost 7 euro...

I always swear to myself I'll be productive and record my travels, never do. I wrote a journal for about a week in Asia. 3 months later, it remained empty. Instead of spending my time writing in it in my spare time, like on overnight trains, I'd catch up on sleep, or gossip/ discuss and count up "player of the week" with tommy and Weinlich. Or make use of our iPhones to listen to Teddy Geiger with surround sound. Updating on this will not only help me to update m...