It's OK everyone, the need to visit Venice before it sinks is no longer there. The boffins have discovered that Africa is moving North at a rate of knotts, pushing Venice up out of it's sinky doldrums with a new lease on life. Hopefully it'll go in for a makeover soon. We had 2 nights in Venice, which is unlike any place on earth (that we've seen anyway). There's no danger of getting run over crossing the road if you forget which direction to look, unless you've...

We weren't planning on heading to the Cinque Terre but so many people we met said it was a must see, so here we are! If you haven't heard of it, Cinque Terre is 5 small towns on the coast in the Italian Riviera with spectacular views. They are really lovely little towns, perched amongst steep rocky cliffs with no cars and some crazy coloured buildings. We stayed in Riomaggiore which is the eastern most town and a delightful place with a lovely rocky beach. There ...

The city of queues! We queued for museums, restaurants, toilets, supermarkets, train tickets etc. I'm very over waiting in line! We only really spent one day wandering around Florence, in this day we visited the Academia Museum (in other words the museum with Michaelangelo's David) after spending 1.5hrs in the queue we finally got in, but we didn't mind the wait since it was still Cultural Week so it was free! David was quite amazing, I had no idea just how big a...

So apparently all roads lead to Rome, and that was certainly true of the one that the airport bus took. After a nasty red-eye flight from Geneva preceded by an hours drive in a rental car from Lausanne due to a lack of cheap accomodation in Geneva combined with no early morning transport, we just wanted to have a sleep. Unfortunately our hostel had a lock-out, so we couldn't stay long after we checked in. We ended up spending a fair portion of the afternoon lying...