Up and early for breakfast this morning as we headed to the Vatican early today. On the bus at 7:30am on the dot to go, no sign of Conner, but too bad as we had a schedule to keep... We find out later that Conner was unwell and had decided to sleep instead. We get dropped off by bus and take a little walk down to a meeting point where we meet our local guide for the tour of the Vatican, the Vatican isn't actually a church or a building, it's technically another c...

To Rome today, which included a stop on the way in Orvieto. Orvieto is a city sitting on top of some cliff faces, because of its site on a high, steep bluff of volcanic rock, the city was virtually impenetrable. We rushed to the bottom of the cliff to beat a coupe of other groups which were also planning on heading up. In order to get to the top we had to take a kind of train up, once at the top we took a quick walking tour, because we had rushed past the other g...