Florence! The first night we arrived we went on an orientation tour, saw the stunning duomo and the main sights- including Michelangelo's David (well the copy, the real ones inside the museum). We went to a leather demonstration and had the chance to buy real leather- I'm too cheap for that though! And then went on to have a four course Italian dinner. Bruschetta, pasta, a choice of a beef stew or chicken dish, and then chocolate gelato. Yum! On to a cocktail bar...

Rome! We arrived back into Rome on Sunday evening and found ourselves upgraded once again. We bumped into Aleesha- who we met way back in Bruges & Amsterdam! So spent the evening catching up with her. Unfortunately we only had one day in Rome, so we spent Monday doing the tourist sights and wandering around. We visited the colosseum, the Trevi fountain- the picture for this blog-, the Spanish steps and a few other sights and ruins as we wandered between them ...

Italian adventure! We flew into our pick up point- Rome- on the Thursday evening, arrived at our accommodation and to our pleasant surprise were upgraded to a cabin with ensuite and airconditioning, opposed to a permanent tent, lovely! Friday morning we woke early and jumped on the bus to start our Italian adventure. Our first stop of the day was Pompeii. We had a tour around the ruins of Pompeii- fascinating! Ate lunch and back on the bus! We arrived at our acc...

Back to Athens! It was a sad farewell to everyone, but we met up for dinner for once last time before heading our separate ways. We had a relatively early night after saying goodbye and slept in so long the next day. We hadn't really had much of a break for about a month so we absolutely crashed in Athens. I finally succumbed to the sickness going around the group during Greek island hopping so spent our days in Athens sleeping and trying to recover. We made our ...

Ios! We arrived into Ios at about 1pm on Sunday. Before leaving santorini we had a delicious breakfast at 'Mamas house', I hadn't had bacon and eggs in so long! In ios we stayed at Far Out Beach Club. We were in the camping side and our accommodation was a little tin box- an absolute hot box at the top of a massive hill. Lucky we didnt spend much time in there! We spent the afternoon by the pool relaxing- the photo for this blog- and then met for dinner at the be...