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...