Today we arrived in the beautiful Tuscan hills of San Gimignano. We left Venice after our visit to St Mark's and the must do gondola ride. Our gondolier spoke good English and after knowing we were from Australia greeting us with a 'good day mate ' he was very informative and we enjoyed our ride and history lesson. Back on the ferry and train to collect our car we leave the beautiful and busy Venice behind. We have a 3-4 hour drive ahead of us. Siri gets us ...

We have awoken up in the beautiful Tuscan Hills of San Gimignano I think I am in love with this place. I keep thinking of the movie under the Tuscan Sun and I am really in the movie. We had a lovely breakfast before heading into town to do the laundry. Even on holidays clothes have to be washed. Once done we head to Pisa. Pisa was disappointing to say the least. Before even getting out of the car we are approached by Africans selling their fake wares anything f...

Day 6..... We have left the beautiful country side of the French Alps and made our way to Venice Italy. We cross the boarder into Italy an easy experience, yet another toll gate where we hand over euros for the pleasure of driving through a tunnel that is 14 kms long. The gates are systematically raised to leave 150 metres between each car or truck. Through the tunnel you are reminded to driver no less than 50kms p/h or no more than 70kms p/h and maintain sp...

Day 4..... Today we left Paris. The care-taking who only speaks French calls us a taxi so we can head into the city to pick up our hire car. That was the easy bit!! Axis car hire closed ring bell after 15mins finally someone arrives. They then tell us our car isn't ready for one hour, we explain we have 6 hours of driving and can't wait. Magically a car is available and we are transferred to another axis hire place. We are given a automatically BMW car. No ...

Day two and after a visit to the glee market got fresh supplies we head off to Centre Paris we are booked on hop on hop off open air bus and we are off to see all the touristy things of Paris. We start of course at the Eiffel Tower and head off to see the Champs de Mars, Opera Garnier, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Musee d'Orsay, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Grand Palais and Trocadero. Unbelievable the age of these buildings and the city in general. Lots of touris...