Today we drove to Rome via Orvieto. Wow if we thought Florence was warm Rome is ridiculous!!! But at least our hotel room has air conditioning this time!! In Rome we went on a walking tour and saw the Spanish Steps the Trevi Fountain (sadly under reconstruction) the Pantheon, the Roman forum and the colosseum. We had some Italian pizzas and went to a gelato shop that had over 150 flavours. (Chris and I tried 8 between us!) we have a competition going on our c...

The day started off with a walking tour of Florence followed by a leather demonstration. We then had some free time which we wandered around the city and sampled some different gelato flavours. The city is very European however I thought it would be more like the movies with beautiful landscape, little rustic houses with red roofs!! Not at all like that. The city is a bit dirty and very spread out and the Italians aren't particularly fond of pedestrians. In t...

Today we travelled from Switzerland down to Florence via Pisa. Pisa is a cute town with little markets and one of the oldest universities in Europe plus of course the leaning tower! We stopped to take some photos and I was for once very impressed with Chris' photo taking skills (usually he's terrible) but when I did a handstand he got the photo perfect first go!!! Top deck asked a few of us couples along the way if we wanted to be booked into a nice Italian r...

Arrived in Switzerland and what can I tell you... It is breathtakingly beautiful. The photos don't even do it justice. It's so relaxed and the weather was amazing. For our first dinner we had Swiss cheese fondu for entree and bratwurst for main. Today we went into Lucerne (about an hour by train) and looked at the beautiful bridges (first covered bridges in Europe) which had amazing paintings in the arches with one bridge depicting the stories of the bible and...

This morning everyone split off and did their own thing. Chris and I decided to head to the Catacombs and check out something a bit different in Paris. We waited in line for 2.5 hours but in the end worth it!! While waiting in line a lady joined the guy standing behind us with pastries and coffee. She said I tried to order you a mocha but they didn't know what I was talking about, then I asked for a latte and they still looked at me blankly so you have a hot choc...