According to Deanna, we now have only 15 days left of our trip...but who's counting!!! We are on our way to Rome for our last 4 days in Italy, before heading to Paris and London. The train trip from Salerno to Rome is only 2 hours by fast train and gives me a chance to catch up on blogging. The view isn't that great anyway especially from inside the numerous tunnels that are part of this trip. The weather continues to be extremely warm and sunny and the forecas...

We have now spent the last few days on the amalfi coast.We based ourselves in Salerno and caught daily fast ferries to the best the amalfi coast has to offer... Positano, Capri, and Amalfi. It's hard to describe this area ... think of building the most impossible structures either on top , the edge or on the side of a cliff and that is the Amalfi coast! Incredible really! There are villages dotted all along the coastline which we viewed from the sea, and every ...

Fabulous Firenze! We have just spent 3 glorious days in Florence, experiencing just about everything the city had on offer. Arriving at the train station with the hundreds of other travellers, we could already see it was going to be a busy and very warm few days. Our hotel was alongside the Ponte Vecchio, which meant easy walking distance to all the major sites plus great shopping! Florence is a city that you could easily live in, and largely a pedestrian only z...

We are now on the train to Florence. It's about a 2 hour fast train ride through Tuscan countryside. The Tuscan landscape is lush with the odd castle here and there, usually atop a mountain, and usually near a small village. We are sitting alongside 2 architectural engineer students from Penn State university who are on a 7 week study tour to Italy- hard life! They give us the heads up on Siena, just outside Florence, which may be worth visiting while we are sti...

We have about a one hour wait at the train station after our 3 days in Venice. It rained here as we arrived and it's now drizzling as we leave, but for the rest of the time, Venice turned on glorious sunny days and balmy nights. Unfortunately, we have both been ill. I had a cold and cough for most of the time on the ship and Grant has had the same while we've been in Venice . Hopefully we have got that out of our system , so that we can be healthy in our last 3 w...