Hotel is a bit out of the heart of Venice so we all had to catch the bus. When we got to the heart Owen took us on a walking tour where we saw the campanile which is a huge bell tower that you get the best views of the Venetian islands, we went back there and took photos after tour, we saw St Marks square it has heaps of diseased pigeons from being in the canals which contain surge, St marks Basilica which was really hot to line up for but a beautiful church in...

Today has been a full day off driving and sleeping on the bus. We enjoyed a nice meal at hotel then went to the bar and drank red wine and played cards. It was a great night had by all. In Rome a few people left the trip like Mark and Pan and Karen bit of a shame cause they where good fun.

Well what a huge day!!! We got up at 5.15 to be left by 6 to join the mile long line for the Vatican. It was pretty hot standing there and I was a bit over all the god stuff, but it had to be done. The bloody pope kept us waiting for an hour and a half lol!! Well he wasn't even there he was on holidays. We hired audio guides instead of going on the tour because we didn't think we could stay there for the three hour long tour, but as it turnes out we were there...

We set off on a walking tour with a local guide around Florence. It is where Michelangelo's master piece "David" is housed, there are also a couple of other replica's around the city. We didn't bother seeing that as the queues are huge. We saw this awesome gothic church, Santa croce it contains tombs of many famous artists like Michelangelo,Ghiberti, Machiavelli, Dante and Gallileo. We also walked past the baptistry which is renowned for it's three sets of ar...

Well a very early morning this morning, up at 5.30am to catch the train back down mt Rigi to leave beautiful Switzerland and off to Italy. A big day of driving but we get an 1hour and half at Pisa to look at the leaning tower and the beautiful churches there. The tower looks pretty cool with lots of people taking some pretty funny pictures involving it. Then off to Florence. We went for a group dinner but not very good food so we ordered this huge floritine ...