After last night today was always going to have a hard time comparing. As we took the ferry back to the main city of Venice my mind started to wander to the anticipation of seeing the things I had loved so much last night in the daylight. I was unfortunately let down. Venice has always been on water and it is really starting to take it's toll with mould on buildings and an air of dankness pervading the place, it has also hardly changed since it was first built so...

Wow is the only way I can describe this evening, wow wow wow. We started out in San Marino and after we bought some stuff we headed off to Venice. San Marino was great brilliant but they were setting up for the motogp race that weekend so it was very busy. We are staying on the outside of the main part of Venice so we had a a few hours at the hotel to get changed and ready to go out that evening in the main city. We, like everyone, had to go by boat to get there ...

"On the boat again, I can't wait to get on the boat again". Yes I'm aware that the words have been modified, but thats kind of the way I feel about Athens. It was really good visiting it and I'm glad we went there, but Italy is so much nicer. Today we headed up Acropolis to see the Parthenon and the Temple of Nike/Venus. It was a fair hike up the hills, but it was pretty good at the top. The Parthenon is in it's third cycle of building as the one you see on the o...

Well, today started as spectacularly as yesterday finished. We were woken early as we had a very important place to be, the next and smallest country in our visit to Europe, Vatican City. This was the day Sally and I had been looking forward to most since we had booked this tour way back when as we are both history nerds and no place has more history than the Vatican and ancient Rome (which was also on the menu today). We started by meeting our tour guide, a very...

Hello everyone and welcome to my Italian experience so far. Today we got the fudge out of Sorrento fairly early so we could go and see the important stuff. With that in mind we (and about 47,000 other people) arrived to see the ruins in Pompeii at around 9:35. We met up with our guide, a Greek which was odd, and after the old bloke figured out the microphone system we were away. Pompeii is all about using your imagination and since mine is usually focused on ment...