Painfully up at 5am this morning for the long drive to Venice. I managed to herd my passengers down to the bus and then we set off, back in the direction of Florence. I smiled to myself as I went passed it, imagining myself dancing with Phillipo again. We drove for most of the day and arrived in Mestre at about 4pm, I had tried to bring our guided tour forward, but the guide was not very co-operative. Gary and I walked everyone to the bus stop, got 46 people ...

Today, was a hard day. I had to get up at stupid o'clock this morning after last nights toga madness to take people to the Vatican. I walked everyone down to the bus stop and got them all tickets and got on the crowded bus into Rome. Unlike my Tucan clients who are used to this kind of crap, these passengers were nervous and didn't appreciate the public bus at all, I must admit, at that time of the morning, being stuck standing, on a bus in the Roman traffic...

My alarm went off at 7am this morning, as I had planned to go down to the Academia to see Michelangelo's David. I was right, I was kidding myself. After last nights antics, I looked up at my phone and thought, there's some numbers on there, but they could be anything, resent if for 9am and went back to bed. I painfully got up at 9am and showered, dressed in my Hawaiian shirt and went down to breakfast. I collected up all the hotel keys and then had to wait f...

Ahhhh……the sweetness of life. How was this day ever going to stack up to yesterday? If only I knew. I left Switzerland as early as possible and crossed the border into Italy about an hour an a half into the journey. I paid the Swiss tax and jumped back on the bus for the four hour ride to the city of Pisa. On the way to Pisa, I taught the passengers that when ever something goes wrong in Italy or if you see someone not having fun, you must say: Smile, ...

Mum and I had a well earned sleep in the next day and then got out of bed, Mum attempted to use the torturous bathroom and almost ended up having to call me to help her get out of the bath. We decided to give our feet a rest and catch the red sight seeing bus. We got to Termini Station and joined the long line for the bus, we were in the que for about an hour before we found out that we had to buy tickets before you got on the bus, so I went to the booth and did ...