When we arrived back in Rome from Sorrento, Mark, Ben and Gem kicked on for a massive night out with our new found friends. Poor little old me had by now picked up a pretty bad cough and went to bed feeling like poo. The next morning I woke up feeling worse, and so did the others in the self inflicted kind of way. We also woke up to a Roman heat wave. As promised by Ereni there was a crippling dry heat blowing in from Egypt, so none of us felt too guilty ab...

Our time in Rome is split into two sections - two nights and one day to start with before heading on a tour of Southern Italy, and another three nights/two days following that. Instead of making a beeline for the Colosseum, the majority of our first day in Rome was spent touring a cemetery. Kinda weird right? But it's not just any cemetery, it's a weaving tunnel of VERY old graves 30 feet below the city: the catacombes. Our tour was at 1pm, so we did have a chan...