First stop ORIVIETO a nice little hilltop village just 3hrs outside of Florence. Stunning - it was a town with historic little old cement houses with wooden shutters. So cute - we just wondered the streets. I tried my first Italian coffee belissimo it was so yummy. We arrived at Prima Porta, were we caught the train into Roma the Eternal City. 1st stop the Spanish steps, great views, heaps of doggie people. The Spanish steps were actually made by the French but ...

That day Shannon and I headed to Athens, yeah we conquered the Greek metro system we found our way to the hostel dumped our stuff and headed out to Plaka to go shopping. The next day we headed to Paros really early. We caught a ferry at 8am and got there at 11am. Straight away we headed out to see the sites, we found the butterfly valley - I swear the butterflies there were fake; all they did was sleep on the trees. Next we were so hot and need to cool down so we...

We set off early at 4:30 am for a long journey to Athens. We ended up sleeping outdoors the night before so we could just jump straight on the bus in the morning. We spent the whole day driving had a stop off at the Corinth Canal which was constructed by 600 Jewish slaves the canal was constructed for the cargo boats to travel through, todays cargo boats cannot use it as they are 10 times the size of the old ones. The canal was so pretty, the water was an aqua bl...

We arrived at Corfu at 9am, went shopping for supplies and made our way down to Ipso where we would be leaving our stuff to go sailing. The captains and 1st mates went for their training, while we packet for the four days. They got back from training and told us that it was to windy so we wont be leaving today, so we stayed at Ipso for the night. We ended up sleeping on the boats Rae told us that we wouldnt need our sleeping bags, it was so freakin cold, everyone...

We set off early for Brindisi where we embarked on our ferry to Greece. It took so long, we had a stop off at a beach on the way the water was so cooling - the roads at south Italy are so sucky and so are the drivers, we had so many people driving wired. We arrived at Brindisi at 5 had some time to kill before we got on the ferry so we went shopping. We jump on the ferry which was an overnight ferry to Corfu yeah beds and showering over the toliet seat :p we had ...