Sorrento 17th - 20th September 2009 We are currently sitting in the bar area on board our ferry to Sicily. Because we were cheap we didn't bother buying a cabin for the night cruise, instead we're going to have to rough it on one of the couches in the bar. Afterwards I will finally be able to say that I've slept in a bar! Anyway, we eventually arrived into Sorrento about 6 hours after we set out in Rome. I'm not really sure why it took us that long, be...

Rome 11th - 16th September 2009 Alright, I'm going to as a brief as possible, mainly because we've been busy little beavers in the 5 or so days we've been here. Arrived into Rome's massive and busy Termini train station. We had awesome directions as to how to get to our accommodation, so we jumped on a bus and within 10 minutes we were there. We leased a little studio apartment off a nice lady. The place is in a great spot, not far from the bus and with a...

Assisi 9th and 10th September 2009 So we're currently sitting in the Assisi train station, waiting for a train to come and take us to Rome. Yesterday, we had our first Italian rain, which was nice, but not overly heavy. We jumped on a bus from Siena to bring us to Assisi, and not only was it 20 minutes late, but we had to share the journey with three other Aussies: 2 older ladies and a younger woman who must've been one of their daughters. Not far into t...

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...