Feeling rested and relaxed - and sporting new tans - we left Santorini in a more civilized fashion this time and caught a flight back to Athens. With only one night in Athens before flying onto Milan we stayed in a different area near the archaeological museum and can really only describe it as junkyville. It was horrible, so completely different to the Plaka - every park we saw had wasted druggies lying around the place and each street corner had riot police sta...

We left Rome with a rather omninous warning from the hotel... be careful in Naples. We looked blankly at him and said why? He looked shocked and said They have the gimora there... the mafia!So with that we arrived in Naples and after having to catch 2 more trains to get to our hostel we were surprised to find how quiet it was! Turns out its a week long holiday here so nothing was open. Even buying a ticket for a bus or train proved quite a challenge as ticket mac...

We arrived in the early afternoon and promptly got completely lost as we tried to find our way to our hotel. Having been on the road for so long our confidence got the better of us and we set off without a map, but unfortunately it seemed the force was not with us and we eventually had to ask some other tourists with a map for directions. When we finally made it to our hotel we were given a map and the man on the desk marked out what we needed to see and a walki...

We arrived to an extremely hot Florence in the early afternoon and after dropping off our gear at the hotel - why are there never any lifts and you're always on the 4th floor - we wandered around the city. There were quite a few open markets which were fun to look through. Most of them were selling leather goods such as belts, jackets, handbags... if only we had more room in our bags... however they weren't exactly cheap so we were satisfied with just looking. L...

Arriving in the afternoon our first mission in Venice was to try and find our hotel,not necessarily the easiest thing to do in this town. We were staying in the suburb of Santa Croce which is between the railway station and the busy tourist area around San Marco. We had a little map provided by the hotel which showed us which streets to go down but its not until we got there that we realised streets in Venice were quite different to our usual idea of streets. Tin...