so we are now in rome, and finally staying in a hostel again. campgrounds are ok, but hostels are just so much better and cleaner. just the smell of the bathrooms at our florence campground made me want to hurl. we got into rome yesterday at around 230, checked into our hostel, and walked down around the colosieum. we decided not to pay to go in yesterday because today we are going to take one of those hop on hop off guided bus tours. they run the same stops fo...

unfortunatley, as we enter florence, the value of the u.s. dollar seems to be going straight down the s***ter. so all of you back home hoping for souveniers, dont hold your breath. we have been in florence for two days now, and it has been raining the whole time. the rain didnt bother us to much the first two nights because mikes mom offered to put us up in a hotel. thanks so much ms. green, it was amazing. the past two days were the only days of the whole trip ...

venice is absolutely amazing. unfortunately 15 minutes of internet access costs as much as the slice of pizza we had for dinner last night, so im not gonna be able to blog much at all. and i would rather spend the money on pizza anyway. ciao 9/2707 now that i have a little time i can elaborate more on our time in venice. first of all, neither of us realized that the train station was only about 50 yards from the grand canal. so you basically walk out of the tr...