So you can't take photos of the real David do here is a fake. It's Sunday here but not fathers day (pretty sure it's in June here) for us it's just a lazy Sunday. We had a sleep in and did a fair bit of walking and yep, shopping. This shopping stuff is going to have to slow down soon! One of our many pleasures is browsing through really expensive stores, like one of today's examples in Giorgio Armani, and being followed by staff who have an inability to disguise ...

Arrivederci Venice, bongiorno Florence! Florence is not a big city, pretty but easy to walk which is exactly what we did this afternoon. My bag weighs way too much so I think a postal box will be Melbourne bound well before me! Hoping to last to Berlin so I can mail back my summer clothes. Today we saw the statue of David - impressively large! Height-wise, and wandered across the city and over the ponte vecchio (famous bridge). Tomorrow we have the whole day to...

Ah beautiful Venice! We managed to find our beautiful accommodation after a slight detour. We've been busy today as we really only had one full day here before moving on to Florence. So we water taxi'd around to St Mark Square then we took the elevator up the bell tower for a beautiful view of Venice. We wandered around a bit then headed to murano to look at all things glass - the good AND the ugly! We've wandered Venice a bit and have decided to skip a gondola...

We arrived in Milan yesterday morning after a night on the train and spent the day wandering about. Matt bought new sunglasses and I tried on a pair of Jimmy Choos that were quite practical (not a common trait) but they did not have my size in stock. We wandered a bit round the duomo area and in the enormous cathedral that has real dead ex-cardinals and the like that they want you to pray to so they become saints. The creepy bit is that they are embalmed in glas...