Hello again, well, we have reached another Italian city and another internet cafe!!! We were rather sad to leave Verona but on Thursday morning, Lake Garda was calling us to visit so we packed our lives into our backpacks and headed North with Marge who decided to take us on an adventure and make us reverse back down the autostrada!!! Having been before, Karen knew the area like the back of her hand and headed straight for the ice cream shop (Kinder Ice Cream ...

Hi all!! We are currently sitting in Verona, having filled up on cheese and ice cream!! We are looking forward to celebrating Juliettes Birthday tonight....! Unfortunately we havent found our Romeo's under the balcony yet! Slightly sad as we are returning Marge tomorrow! Had an eventful few days and are catching the suns rays as we wander round the old towns and soak up the Italian culture! Had a nightmare in Bologna which we would not recommend anyone go to!!...

We have finally found an internet cafe and have a spare hour to update the blog! We had a lovely meal in Florence and are trying out all the local cuisines! So far we have tried rabbit - including the kidney!! Octopus legs and truffle sauce! After leaving Florence with Marge (our yellow fiat!) we headed to Pisa to look for a bed for the night, although it turned into a bit of a mission and at 8pm we still had no where to stay and thought we would have to sleep in...

Well hello everyone! We are writing this from a dodgy Italian internet cafe in the centre of Florence! It has all seemed a bit hectic for our summer holiday so far! We met at Stansted airport and couldnt have timed it more perfectly as Karens Dad pulled up outside the terminal as Rachel was stepping off the Stansted express! We checked in our rather large and stuffed full backpacks and headed straight for Wetherspoons!! A bottle of wine later we stepped onto...