With it seemingly quite impossible to get in to Croatia for a small sum of money, the most cost effective way without having to travel half way around the world was to take 2 separate flights with a 36-hour layover in Venice. Whilst it was only a short stay back here, it did provide us with our first 'airport accommodation' of the trip (& hopefully the last). Not being able to check in at our hotel until 3pm, & arriving at Venice airport at 3am we had ple...

Florence was only a short mornings drive to visit the final Italian city of our itinerary and it was only a 1 night stay so no time to waste. Probably my favourite of the cities, Florence was a smaller, very relaxed and well structured city compared to the other 2 and very beautiful, being known as the city of art (could also very easily be known as the city of heat, reaching 38 degrees). We started the day watching a leather making workshop before Doug & I d...

An 8 hour coach journey and we had arrived in Rome for the evening. A free roam around the town for the first night saw a visit to the Trevi fountain to unload our loose coins and through them into the fountain (we committed to visit Rome another 10 times with the combined amount of coins we threw into the water fountain). A very picturesque place before heading onto Piazza Navona Square for our dinner. Again fooled by the tourist factor, we were suckered into a ...

A big day of driving from Austria before finally arriving in the drowning city of Venice in the late afternoon. This was to be the first of our 3 camping ground cabin accommodations in Italy as opposed to large hostels. A provided local dinner and at last a quiet night and free time to recharge our batteries, both health wise & electronic devices to catch up on current affairs back in Australia. An early bed time by most ahead of a long day of exploring the c...