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Hey everyone,
We are leaving Italy 2day after 2 weeks of travelling around. I have loved every second of it, it is an amazing country! There was so much to do in Rome.. the vatican city was mind blowing! I couldn't believe how beautiful the basilica was and everything is decorated in such detail!! I bought some rosary beads and dipped them in the holy water and wandered around the whole day with them round my neck haha.. I felt blessed! The colleseum was really cool, took heaps of photos as u probably already saw.The Trevi Fountain was probably my favourite thing in Rome.. we went there at night and it looked so amazing all lit up! Me and Bec accidently threw the coins in the fountain over the wrong shoulder (meant to do it over the left) so we did it again haha. How dumb! The pizza and Gelato in Italy are sooo good!We found this gelato place near the pantheon (which is amazing too!) which had around 100 flavours, we were all in heaven! Having to pick only 4 flavours was a big decision haha, they had every flavour u could think of!! After 4 nights in this ancient city we left for Florence..
The Duomo was the highlight of Florence, no matter how many times I walked past it I had the same reaction.. Utterly amazed!! The markets were also really fun, I loved bargaining down the prices. There were so many leather goods and jewellery! We waited in line in the boiling hot for 3 hours to see the Statue of David. It was really good to finally see him except there was a crazy lady in there not letting u take photo's. I took some on the sly anyway haha. We walked across the Ponte Vecchio bridge and looked at all the jewellery places along the way except we could only window shop cos everything was so expensive! After 3 nights in florence we got the train to venice..
Venice was so pretty. I loved how it was so different from anywhere in the world. There are so many little bridges allowing you to get around over the water filled streets. St Marks Square and the Basilica were amazing! And I have never seen so many pigeons in my life. And they are not afraid of you either!! They just cruise around and you have 2 make sure u dont step on them cos they don't fly away when u get close. On our second night in Venice we had a gondola ride. You can take food and drink on board so we decided to get a bottle of wine except they didnt sell chilled wine anywhere so in the supermarket we grabbed 2 bottles of white wine and hid them under the frozen peas and collected them about 4 hours later and it was perfect! Haha. In the gondola we cruised around the water for half an hour taking photos and relaxing, except the time went so quickly we didnt want to get off. It wasnt cheap either! About $40 per person. That night we had a delicious dinner on the water right next 2 the rialto bridge and watched the sun go down.. it was gorgeous!! The next day we when to Murano, an island that is famous for its glass. We watched a glass vase and a horse ornament being blown in a total of 5 mins.. was extraordinary!! There is a massive strip of little shops selling all the glass goods so went spent half a day exploring them! I bought some glass jewellery and Beck bought a perfume bottle.. its really cute. After that we checked out Lido, the beach in Venice cos we were stuck in a heat wave! It wasn't the nicest of beaches but worth checking out.
We spent the entire next day travelling from Venice all the way down to positano (on the south coast of Italy). The only accomodation we could get was in a mixed dorm with a shared bathroom at the only hostel in positano. The first night we were in a dorm with 18 people and this lady snored worse than a man! She was slepping on top of Middi's bunk and she hates snorers! It was pretty funny but semi annoying cos we didnt get a proper sleep. The next night was better cos we were moved to a 10 bed dorm. The beach at Positano was sooo nice! We got beach chairs and umbrellas and sunbaked all day! It was such a relaxing day. That night we went out 4 dinner with some people from the hostel. There was us, some Italian guys, Arginitian girls and 3 people from Austria, it was a fun night and we managed to beat the language barrier and chat about our travels. Everyone was really nice. The next day we hopped on a ferry to Amalfi which is only 20 mins away. We stayed at Amalfi Hotel which was in a really good position and had a buffet breakfast so we stocked up on food so we didnt have to buy lunch each day. We had a beautiful dinner at this restuarant on the water and watched the sun go down over the cliffs. In the day we hit the beach and I checked out the Duomo which was amazing, but I didnt get any photos cos my memory card was full and hadnt had a chance to save them that morning. I was bumming but I got some postcards of what it looked like inside so that I can remember.
Yesterday we left Amalfi and got a ferry to Naples. After checking into our hotel we went to Pompei which was so interesting. The ruins are massive so it took us 3.5 hours to see everything. We only stayed 1 night in Naples which was lucky cos there was a mix up with the price of the hotel and we ended up having to pay £40 each (which is about $80 for the night each, double what we paid in Florence). Lucky breakfast was included and it was a Mecure Hotel so the buffet was awesome.. the first hot buffet we have had in Europe. We all wanted to get the most out of this Hotel since it broke our budgets, so we ate til we were stuffed and then packed up our bags with cereal, biscuits,fruit, breadrolls and jams..it should last us for a few days haha! It was pretty funny trying to sneak everything in our bags without them seeing! This morning we did a bit of shopping in Naples and hopped on a train back to Rome so that we can fly to Barcelona 2nite..
Anyways I feel like I've written a novel so i better be off. Miss you all, speak soon. Ciao.. Jess xoxo
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