Leaving Rome behind and heading back up Italy to Pisa where we spent the afternoon - saw the leaning tower & took the usual tourist pictures propping it up! After lunch, got back on train to get to our hostel in Florence, this time we're staying in another campsite in a tent (but has proper beds & wood flooring so i cant realy claim to be camping!) It's overlooking Florence in an olive tree area, beautiful views. Florence has unfortunately been mostly a ...

First impressions of Roma werem't great, we spent 3hrs sitting on the floor of the train in between carriages from Milan as we didn't have reserved seats. Arrived late in evening and went straight to hostel on outskirts of city which meant the first places i saw were dirty, littered & covered in grafitti - a far cry from Switerland! The hostel was actually a campsite & for 10 euro a night we had our own private caravan with an on site bar-restuaruant &am...