We are moving on to Pompei tomorrow. We've not really had good luck here in Florence so we are looking forward to leaving. We were shattered and my tummy still hurt so we were having a lazy day. Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not for LONG!!!!!!! (I'm still angry so expect exclamation marks). Paul went to a local cafe to get some wifi, and I told him to email me at a certain time if there was anything interesting happening, then I would turn on my data roaming and read it w...

Today we got the sightseeing bus around Florence. It's actually a really interesting city, and it used to be the capital of Italy. We got off at the Piazza Di Michelangelo which is up a mountain and you can see over all of Florence. Again, it was very hot today. Galileo and Michelangelo are buried here as well as Machiavelli and other people. We went round the bus twice as its a good way to get some sun and it's interesting. For dinner we went to the Hard Rock ...

Today and tomorrow we are in Florence. The main attraction here is the Duomo cathedral. It was built and paid for by the florentine people a long time ago, and it is breathtaking. It looks like a painting, and the details are very intricate and unique. It's very large, and only a two minute walk from our hotel. We wandered around the outside of it, but I was tired (I'll explain why in a bit), hangry (when you're moody because you're hungry) and cutting my nose of...

Today we are moving on to Florence. The train journey was about 3 hours but was straightforward. We arrived at the hotel, a short walk from the station and right in the shopping district. We are a stones throw away from il Duomo, the cathedral in Florence. The hotel is a very bizarre layout. To get to our room we have to go up one and a half flights of stairs, through a 'wifi zone', through the breakfast room, up another flight of stairs and then down a long cor...