We took a well earned sleep-in today (8:30) followed by a leisurely scrambled egg breakfast cooked in our "chalet" while we plotted out the day ahead of us. Two buses run from the bus stop out the front, the 247 which terminates at the Vatican or the 246 which takes you to the metro stop. The starting point for our day was simply going to come down to whichever bus came first, it turned out to be the 247 to the Vatican and so our starting point was set!...

Last night was regrettably our final one here, we've never felt more at home since we left as we have here in southern Switzerland. It's clean, friendly, safe and welcoming, something that unfortunately can't be said for some of it's more famous European neighbours. It would be very easy to settle in here for a long time.... This afternoon we returned to Italy on the train bound for Rome. We had to change to a connecting train in Milano but due to a delay on the...

After making good time to Milan ( 130-140kph the whole way ) and successfully dropping the car off we made a decision. It turned out our accommodation was (like the Barcelona experience) not where we believed it was. We could see no point in staying this far out for the night, so we cancelled our accommodation and headed straight for the central train station to stand in front of the board and decide where to head next. With Switzerland only a couple of hours fro...

With no real plans for today we took the opportunity to have a sleep in and a relaxed breakfast without the pressing need to be somewhere. We were simply going to spend the day wandering around Verona, sipping espresso's and seeing Juliet's balcony. Not long into the day tragedy struck us! Upon parking the car and gathering our things from the seat our beloved camera fell to the ground, of all the places it's been and survived it drops while getting it from t...

Today we were off to Verona where we'd decided to stay for a couple of nights, but first was a slight 80km detour to make a morning stop in Pisa. There's not much to see or do here other than the famous leaning tower so we'd decided that a drive thru visit was the best option. Back on the road we pushed on towards Verona, again the generous speed limits allowing us to cover ground in good time. Must say though I'm a bit over these damn tunnels, we must have gon...