We arrived in rome on a high from our time in Florence and boy what a shock did we get! Rome is everything you expect it to be - great buildings, loadsa history and nice food but with one truly shocking exception - the people! The roman people are rude, arrogant and had an obvious dislike for tourists - especially english ones! This kinda put a dampner on our time there but being great people that the english are, we made the most of it! (i mean at least it wasnt...

Hi Everyone, last day in Florence today and we've had a really good time. We're staying at a campsite right up in the hills of Tuscany. We hired a massive quad the other day with the danish couple and went all over Tuscany. It was really good. The guide we had took us off road quite a few times and we were trekking through rivers and up massive dirt tracks. It was really really good and me and Ol definitely want one of those!! It was really nice also as we stoppe...

Venice is by far the most gorgeous city in the world. We have been here now for three days and we do not want to move on! Met some really nice people here to and we will probably be goin on to Florence and Rome with them. We got very drunk the first night here which is always good and olly spent the next morning with his head in the toilet. Lovely. We tried lobster the other night too which was yum. Yesterday we took a very expensive gondala ride with friends whi...

Hey, got the night train to Milan last night which was an experience. We shared a cabin with the speaker of the Austrian Presidant which was pretty cool. He told us all about Rome and what to do there (as he goes there alot to the Vatican on state business, like you do...) so we think we are probably going to need about 4 days there. Milan is pretty cool, had a bit of a do with the tourist office because we got all the way to see the last supper and then they tol...

Hey everyone, we arrived in Austria yesterday and once again a hotel worked out to be alot cheaper than the hostels so we got another bath. The weather here was good yesterday but today is a bit overcast and colder. Last night was really good, we went to an international film festival in front of city catherdral and the place was packed out. There were loads of international food stands so becki got chinese and i got spanish tortillas. Mine was so much nicer! W...