we went to go see the last supper painting and had prebooked it to make sure that we got in. luckily that we had booked it so far in advance as they had sold out for the next two weeks! the painting itself is really reall ig and theres another painting opposite that has alot more going on but its not painted by leonardo da vinci. you went in groups of 20 and got to stay there for 10-20 mins i cant really remember all in silence. we managed to get a sneay photo of...

we managed to do florence and pisa together as there are loads of short trains that go between them and after spending a few days this easter with mum in pisa i knew there was literally nothing there apart from the famous tower! pisa is really small and main bit with the tower is really nice we were planning to go up it but its €15 each and its just too expensive! we went around there a hundreds of shops there and went in the cathedral and did the obvious photo...

i only wanted to go to bologna becasue it seemed really central so we didnt have to constatly keep moving and we could have a base for the next 5 days- really should have picked somewhere closer to the train station ever day we had a 3 km to the station and a 3 km back to the hotel! luckily we were fit enough to do this by onw but with backpack it was awful! we were like on the outskirts of bologna on some sort of motorway! however the hotel was lovely!! sosososo...

we too a day trip to naples from rome with mum, we could only get a specific train because we didnt want to pay for reservations. italian trains for interrail are really confusing and thats why we ended up paying €10 euros to get to rome from venice. naples train station was like a building site and we couldnt really find how to get to pompeii the guide book said we needed to get a particular line to pompeii but there were no signs and the place was packed! we ...

rome was absolutely boiling, the heat nearly knocked us over as we stepped off the train and after a few minutes of walking around we got into the hotel and straight into the shower to cool down. the hotel was very nice despite the shared bathroom but alot better than what we were used to. the lift in the hotel was tiny, only big enough for two people and you could touch either end with just your shoulders. we walked around seeing what we could before we couldn't...