Having read that the south of Italy is a lot poorer than the Northerners kind of braced us for it, but to be honest what we read was pretty light on to what is the scene. The south feels third world, which reminded me more of Bolivia and Peru more than an alleged 1st world nation. This is seen no better than in Sicily which is a beautiful island scarred by ugly industrial factories dotted all over the island.The beaches were all polluted with so much garbage, it ...

Arrived at Camping Costa Verde late at night, welcomed by a litter of week-old kittens, one of which Daniel almost squashed under the van... This place is gorgeous and had we not just had five days by the sea we would have loved to chill out here too, but we had to head down to Sicily as we had already been mooching around too long. The campsite had it's own beach so we decided on yet another 'final' sea swim in between rain showers. We left here at lunch and ...

After a hectic time of queuing, shuffling and dodging in Rome, we headed for the tranquility of the Amalfi coast. We weren't entirely sure where exactly we wanted to be, it just had to be peaceful, so when we stopped to check out a campsite in Sorrento which seemed a bit busy, we jumped back in the car and moved onto option number two. Daniel was a little harassed by the time we got to our second site at the bottom of a 25km winding road, but to our delight it ...

Siena is the site of the famous horse race, Il Palio, that lasts 75 seconds to be precise and it's run twice a year around the main piazza called Il Campo. We visited the piazza but missed out on the race by about two months, oh well, can't win them all. Apparently you can watch the race on the internet nowadays so i guess that will have to suffice. The city is a beautiful one although we didn't have much time here, we literally stopped for a couple of hours on ...

Introduction to Rome was more of the infamous Italian driving which i think that I am starting to get a handle on, and a pretty impressive bit of grid lock without the grids but plenty of gesticulating from the resident Brunos and Marias. Next surprise was at the campsite where we were staying which included some 500 German school kids who had turned the site into Euro Disney, with their own catering company Hoffman Reisen (Hoffman Rising - like a Phoenix). Each ...