Well today has been a long day! we got up and had our last continental breakfast in the hotel, I've been sticking with bread and butter, its either that or muesli with hot milk or cake! We went to get the bus but found out they were off again so we had a lovely 3km to the station with a train to catch! We eventually got to the train station and got on the train. The italian trains aren't as bad as I was expected from all the awful comments I got about them befo...

Well today was our last day in Palermo before we get the train to Naples tomorrow. We haven't really done alot today. We started by walking along to the cathedral (in the picture) it looked gorgeous on the outside abd was different from the one in Pisa and in Florence. Inside there were tombs and crypts but I didn't really fancy looking in there! Just up the road there was supposedly a palace with loads of mosaics and stuff but when we went it looked like governm...

Today was our second day in Palermo and it has been a lot better than yesterday! We started the day with a plan and a full stomach thanks to the hotels continental breakfast! nothing beats a full english though! We decided that we would explore a bit more of Palermo and go up Mount Pellagrino (after we found out a bus went up there!) We had a look in the Marte dell Capo which is one of the historical bits of Palermo and there was stalls selling everything from ...

Our journey to Palermo started last night with a 3km walk to the station from our hostel in Florence. We got on one of the Italian Eurostar trains down to Rome and admired some of the gorgeous Italian countryside zooming past, until shaun got bored and started playing with some amaretti biscuit we'd bought as you can tell from the picture!! When we reached Rome we got on a sleeper train heading for Palermo and it was the strangest experience ever! The train was ...

This will be our last post from Florence, we've had a really nice time up here seeing some of the famous sights (that Shaun knows from Assassins Creed!) Today we have been really tired from the walking over the past few days so we've just been doing a little bit of exploring but mainly cafe hopping! We stopped for lunch at this little cafe in one of the back streets of Florence and I tried a new pasta dish-gnocchi. Its like little balls of pasta in a tomatoey s...