Today the hills came alive with the sound of music. That's right folks, we've entered Austria. First of all I have to say that Italy is brilliant, you should all go there and go now. Come on, are you booking tickets yet? Sally and I have fallen in love with the place, the history, the art, the wine, the food and even the manic death wish driving. If we knew Italian we would probably live here, but since we don't you get to keep us you lucky ducks. But now onto ou...

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 ...

What a day. Well it was actually quite boring up until about an hour ago. I had a brilliant sleep in until half past eleven this morning and then spent the next 4-5 hours on the ferry playing cards, 31 to be exact. We finally arrived back it Italy at Ancona and when we set off down the autostrada it felt like we had returned home. The countryside is so brilliant and everything is just better than Greece (except the islands). Saying that we really did enjoy Greece...

"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...