-Dawn- So, today we arrived in Rome around 6:00 pm. We went and visited some of the sights that night including the Trevi Fountain (seen here) which is the most beautiful fountain ever! It's like the entire front of the building has water cascading from it and the scuptures are wonderful. (I bought a painting of it I liked it so much!) anyway, we also saw bunches of other things: the spanish steps, the piazza Venezia (venice plaza), the piazza del Popolo...

-Dawn- So, today we went and toured the city or Rimini. The city had three sets of walking tours laid out with signs (in english, yay!) describing the various ruins, monuments, and buildings from three different eras: ancient, middle ages, and modern. We ended up walking all around the city and saw arches and remnants of city walls from the days of the roman empire castles built in the middle ages, an ancient bridge still in use today, several ruins, and e...

-Elizabeth- Our 2 days/3nights in Rimini Italy are so far very relaxing. We arrived Friday evening and took the bus to our hotel, Sunflower Beach Backpacker hostel. It had bright yellows on the walls and a corner of the room with large pillows to sit on the floor, a bar and small tables and chairs for breakfast. A local bar gave out free samples that night to advertise. They gave us a sample of 3 different mixed drinks. After sampling the drinks we wat...

-Dawn- So, what an adventure Venice was:) We arrive from Austria after Dark as this was the only train to Italy not travelling through Slovenia (A country where our rail passes are not valid). So we get in at about 9:00 pm we have no city map, just rather undetailed directions to our hotel. We fisrt ask the guy at the boat station (they have boats instead of busses, as there are no streets for cars in the city, only waterways and pedestrian streets). He ...

_Elizabeth- On Monday a friend of Andrea's Mom gave us a tour of central Graz. She knew a lot about the history of all the buildings, and we saw part of the old city wall and one of the original 14 gates of the city, most of which are now gone. On Tuesday we went to see the Lipizzaner horses at the stable where they are bred. The horses are all black when they're born and then turn white as they mature. There were a lot of ponies with their mother ...