Captains log 13/06/13 it's time! After going to bed in a huff because of the retarded bar and wifi set up at the hotel, I woke up with a smile on my face! Finally one of my life long goals would get checked off the bucket list, the mighty coliseum!!! We rushed though breakfast which for the first time in a while was semi decent, and got on the metro train line to go there. Let me just say, you don't understand how good the London Underground is until you get on...

We left from florence to head to ROMA! Very excited we find out we will be visiting the leaning tower of Pisa en rout, not so exciting we find out that Pisa is a 2 hour drive from Florence...in the opposite direction from Rome. So we will be adding an extra 4hrs onto our journey. But, worth it! We got a little sleep on the bus, and after paying the road tax for entering a new city we arrive! Just a quick note on the road taxes, we have come to realise how corrup...

Captains log 11/06/13 Florence! We get up insanely early to start tthe long drive to Florence, the breakfast was bad. Strange corn flakes and yoghurt. The bus trip was a 4 hour trip, the whole bus was passed out, but for some strange reason I was wide awake. Thinking to myself a great quote " minerals - your either born with them or without them, you cannot buy them, nor acquire them" it's day 9 and people are hitting the wall. I spent the whole drive looking at ...

Waking up early to get a bus to the mainland jetty, we caught a ferry over the Venice! We learnt some snippets of history from the captain, about how the locals were scared of invading barbarian tribes after the fall of the Roman Empire, so rowed out about two hours into the swampy sea of the Mediterranean. They plunged huge wooden pillions into the sea floors and grew from there. I was then walking about the boat taking photos when the caption invited me up to s...

Captains log 09/06/13 yet another rough wake up after the broader line genus call to go out after the casino and then being lead a stray because of happy hour. Never the less I rolled out of bed after two hours sleep after much stamping around from my loved one! However I did find it extremely funny no matter what pain I was in that Bella took money out of my wallet to buy fruit for the bus trip, because of her total independence and slightly clouded mind she too...