Well, what can I say about Naples. This place is nuts. I've never felt so scared as a pedestrian than I did in this city. It all pretty much started on the very first night. I met a Canadian girl, Kate, who was staying in the same room as me. We decided it would be a good use of the first night to just head down into the historical centre (about a 15min walk) and just aimlessly wander around. Now a 15 minute walk sounds pretty easy, until you have to do it in Na...

This was another place that was pinned on my map rather early after seeing some photos of the place. Cinque Terre is actually 5 small villages along the coast. Each village having buildings going up the cliff faces. We drove from La Spezia to Genoa stopping at 3 of the villages along the way. And what a crazy drive it was. Most of the time the roads going down to these places couldn't fit more than one car at a time, yet for some reason plenty of people saw fit ...

We spent just one night in Milan and it was mostly uneventful. On the day we arrived we drove around for ages trying to find the hostel. And driving in Milan was no laughing matter. Since then I've now been to Naples and am currently in Rome and I'm pretty well convinced that Italian's get their licenses from Wheetie boxes. It was quite late when we did eventually find it. The hostel was called the Hostel Scream and it pretty well suited the name. It was in this...