Siena 7th and 8th September 2009 Our train journey to Siena involved a bit of backwards travel towards Florence, but getting off about halfway at a place called Empoli and changing trains to get to Siena. We had given ourselves a 10 minute changeover time, and were a bit concerned about it, as most of the trains we've caught over here have been delayed or cancelled. We thought we'd risk it anyway. There was no dramas getting on the train at Pisa, and the...

Pisa 6th September 2009 We arrived into Pisa around lunchtime, and with some fairly s*** directions on how to get to our hostel we set out in search of a bus. Being a Sunday with irregular bus services also made it difficult to figure out what we needed to do. We eventually found where the bus left from, and in us wondering around outside the train station, a nice old lady gave us two tickets for the bus that she hadn't used. We jumped on a bus, keeping a...

Florence 3rd - 5th September We arrived into Florence, slowly, but eventually. We had no problems finding our hostel, which was only a short stroll from the train station. We dropped our bags, cranked the air conditioning and set off in search of some lunch. We wandered into the city and stumbled upon heaps and heaps of market stalls set up. We browsed through them, not really looking for anything, but I ended up buying stuff. I walked out with a new wat...

Bologna 1st - 2nd September 2009 We eventually arrived into Bologna after all the trouble with the trains back at Verona. Again we had really clear directions to our hotel, which needed to a bus to get us there. We found a tabacchi in the station and purchased two tickets for our bus, next we just had to find where the number 25 left from. We found the stop, but the bus wasn't heading in the direction we needed. There were plenty of other stops in the bus...

Verona 29th - 31st August 2009 We arrived into Verona train station just after lunch, with really clear directions as to how to get to our hostel. It involved catching a bus for about 10 minutes. The only problem was, Dan and I didn't know where to buy tickets!! We saw the bus, but everyone already had their tickets so we wandered around in the sweltering heat with our packs for a bit trying to find a machine, no luck. We headed back into the train stati...