23/8/15Back again. We're a week into our Italy tour and I can barely remember places as we are so busy zooming about from historical places to the next. Absolutely amazing. I didn't like the Sistine Chapel as much as I'd expected. Too much of clashing pictures and colours. But impressive!And St Peter's was BIG, and full of the usual Chapels, Statues, pictures etc, but every Church and Cathedral here is too! They are all WOW!We moved on to Pisa, the tower was sho...

Chelsea and I have moved since last entry!We sweltered again in Budapest seeing the Castle, Parliament, Cathedral, the museum regarding Nazi and Communism crimes. We also did a tour of the Jewish area and ghetto which was good. Then it was off to a small historic town to see another Castle. Most of the group went rafting in the local river. Then we went to Slovenia, to Bled, a pretty Alpine town, with a Castle, a lake with an island on it. We walked the 6 Kms aro...

Hi to all, Not sure when I last wrote- maybe Nice? We got caught in a French train strike leaving Nice so missed our connection to Genoa and then the coast and of course Italy wouldn't replace the tickets as they were from France so had to buy new ones! Anyway we finally got to our place at 9.40 pm then had a km climb 700 m up a hill. I must have earned some brownie points on the Spanish walk as a local man who had just put a friend on the train offered us a ri...