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...

"As we hurtled down the motorway" would be an extremely inappropriate way of starting this blog because we did no such thing. We started off our day far to early for a holiday at 6am when our wake up call arrived. As I shuffled out of bed at 6:35am I realized to things 1) I better get a move on and 2) today was going to be bloody boiling. I was right about both things as I only just made the bus to take us to our destination and the temperature reached 39 degrees...

Hello there pets, how are we all? I'm well thank you for asking. Now that the formalities are out of the way let's get down to brass tacks. Today we travelled about a trillion hours on a coach to a town I thought was in coastal Victoria, but it turns out they have one in Italy also, Sorrento (I wonder if they have a Blairgowrie too). On our way to Sorrento we stopped in the much nicer (and hotter!) Florence. We arrived at about 9am after leaving our hotel at 7:30...

Today was another long day on the motorway, but the bright side to this is we are now in Italy (not that leaving the French Riviera is a bad thing!). As if to welcome the fact Sally and I had pizza for lunch, and we are expecting to have many more slices and bowls or plates of pasta as well. Our major stop today was in a little place you may have heard of called Pisa. We had to get off our nice tour bus to get on a local bus to be able to get to the square of mir...

Was another long day today with us traveling 700kms from Barcelona to Nice but the places we went to last night made it well worth it. But let's get back to the day, we mostly just stopped in at motorway stops yesterday except for our stop in Arles. Arles is the town in France with the SMELLIEST toilets! The stench was unbelievable, I almost brought up my lunch. Also in Arles there is some very pretty city walls and a still used ancient bull ring in the middle if...