We went to Verona today, the Italian town where Romeo and Juliet was set. It's absolutely gorgeous and I really recommend going. We went to the 'Casa di Giulietta', which is Juliet's house from the play. There is a gateway full of graffiti where people write love messages to each other. We wrote 'Elz ❤️ Pabz' as that's the extent of our romance. We didn't go into the house as it was too busy and it wasn't worth paying €20 for, but we did go into the courtya...

Today we had a rest day as we have lots of things to sort out, primarily our washing! We had a well deserved lie in, and then went to find a launderette. We discovered a massive shopping centre right around the corner from us, and found a launderette. However, it was about €3 per t shirt and we wanted to find a self service place instead so we left it. There was a supermarket in the shopping centre so we got some grapes and other snacks for the mini fridge in ...

Today was our first proper day in Italy. We get breakfast included with the hotel and Paul absolutely wiped it out. We still did not have the ticket numbers for Trenitalia, so we went to the train station about 40 minutes early to see if there was anything they could do. After queueing for 20 minutes and talking broken English with someone from Trenitalia they decided there was nothing they could do, even though I had pictures of the tickets and retrieval codes a...

Today was a travel day from Bern to Brescia, which can only mean one thing - PROBLEMS. The day started off well, noon check out, a Starbucks to pass the time as our train was at 13:30. While we were at the station we went to get drinks from a Kiosk shop, and found a 'Cannabis Iced Tea' - as well as blue fanta. Obviously we bought both. The iced tea tasted just like lemon! I don't know if you have ever had the pleasure of using Trenitalia, but if you do, don't. I...