Napoli, what a cool city! We have had a really great time here. We stayed at a hostel called Giovanni's house. Giovanni is great, giving insightful suggestions of what to do in the city and making delicious pasta for us as well as getting everyone together for music and hilarious chats! The first day we took a walking tour he suggested us. Naples has thriving streets, beautiful buildings and a lovely seafront. It also is the home of pizza (originally invented fo...

Rome! Where to begin? We've had an action packed few days and done a lot of walking around the city, which has meant lots of gelati tasting as well! Saturday was ancient Rome day. We first headed to the Roman Forum and Palatine, which were interesting to walk through, although in Italy they are not the best at giving information about what you're looking at, so we spent a lot of time looking at ruins we didn't really know much about. The afternoon was spent at t...

Buon Giorno from Florence. It's been a full on few days, with lots of Italian tourists around as the Christmas holidays last the 12 days of Christmas here. We arrived a few days ago and spent our first afternoon getting orientated and exploring around the historic city with its many amazing buildings. We poked our nose in at the beautiful duomo (cathedral), which has incredibly ornate green marble adorning the outside and checked out all the statues on Piazza del...

We've had an amazing few days staying with Miki's friend Monica and her husband Alessandro in their town about an hour north of Venice. They picked us up from the station on Sunday and after a hearty pasta dish at home we headed off to Trieste. It was a beautiful drive with the Alps to the North and a rugged coastline from which you could see to Slovenia and Croatia. Just out of the city was beautiful Miramare Castle, situated on a rocky outcrop. The city itself...

Happy New Year! We welcomed in 2011 in beautiful Venice. Arriving on New Years eve we were staying in a very social hostel, which was great fun and we met some cool travellers. Arriving in the early afternoon the first thing we did was full up on delicious pizza then wander around the beautiful old town. Everyone had dinner at the hostel together that night and after drinks we headed off to welcome in the New Year with 70,000 others in San Marco Plaza. Yesterday...