When I say we went to Venice I'm kinda lying.. We stayed at a campsite in a town called Fusina from which we took a ferry to Venice every day. The campsite was pitched to us as a party place; "Venice by day, Fusina by night" they told us. And I suppose they were right if your idea of a party is sitting in a metal shack waiting for the sun to come up.. Apparently we missed party season by a few months - everything was closed, from the supermarket to the only resta...

Bologna was a bit of a filler city to replace the destroyed Cinque Terre which I'll have to return to Italy to do with Zara or Mum one day. We were very excited having booked a really cheap but really nice looking hotel, a nice break from hosteling. We knew it was a bit out of town, but had no idea it was technically in a different town, 5km from Bologna. Anyway we were looking forward to two things in Bologna - Ferrari museum, and Spaghetti Bolognese. Turns o...

Florence has been a RANDOM one.. A small town with no metro system renowned for it's leather, food, wine and churches per square metre has delivered us crackhead football players, flash floods, heaps of people from Philidelphia and an angry, angry toilet. We booked accommodation last second so we had little idea what Dany House really was until we got there. It was quite literally a house, named after the owners mother, rented out to up to 16 backpackers at a ti...

From icy Vienna we flew to Rome, which despite it being mid-Autumn had the best and warmest weather I've experienced in a while. I have been looking forward to Italy the whole trip, partially because it's just a cool place, and partially because it's long overdue - I was going to do exchange at school when I learned Italian but long story short I didn't. We wasted no time immersing ourselves in the Italy's rich culture, and by culture I mean food. On the first da...

Vienna is a lot like Berlin. In fact it's kind of like what Berlin would have been like if they hadn't had that whole cold war business. There is all the culture and the street art, all the great nightlife, but with less of the falling down buildings. We stayed at a brand new, gigantic and awesome hostel, Wombats on the Nachsmarkt. We stayed there on the recommendation of a friend, being told that the Nachsmarkt was basically a road where Asian immigrants sold s...