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...

Venice 26th - 28th August 2009 After enjoying our 4am room service Rice Bubbles and Juice, we said goodbye to the Hilton and headed back to the airport. It was surprising how many people were lurking around at 4.30. The line for bag drop was shorter than usual, but still a queue. We dragged our feet through security and had to wait for a bit to find out what gate we were leaving from. It was so full of people in the shop bit past security we actually cou...

Kilkenny 23rd and 24th August 2009 After arriving into the city, and walking a fair distance to find our hostel, we dropped our bags for a quick look around the city. Kilkenny is not a large place, just the 2 main shopping streets and a hell of a lot of pubs, in true Irish fashion. We were in desperate need of some lunch, after only managing a bagel in Cork before we left. So after a bit of strolling we decided on just having an early dinner as it was clo...