As we had missed George Clooney in Venice we went on to Lake Como where his villa is to see if we had more luck there (not really we had just heard the lake was nice). We took the train to Varenna then took the ferry across to Menaggio on the west coast of the lake. We had a great youth hostel to stay in with a pretty good restaurant / bar that had great views over the lake and town and very affordable prices. The weather wasn't really on our side so we had a mor...

We arrived into Italy by walking across the border from the Slovenian train station then made our way onto another train to Venice. Some might say we were celeb hunting as we were in time for George Clooney's wedding but we missed them all anyway! We had a couple of days exploring Venice and joined a walking tour that took us around many of the back streets, starting near the train station and ending up in a very busy San Marco square which made us appreciate eve...

The English summer was officially over but we wanted a bit more sun and a bit more holiday before we said goodbye to the sun for the year. So we had a 5 day holiday in Naples and the Amalfi Coast. We spent one day and two nights in Naples before we were to make our way to the Amalfi Coast. We had some pretty good food related experiences in Naples were we went to what was meant to be one of the best pizza places in town. We weren't disappointed with some huge and...