This was such an amazing place to stay. Nestled up in the Tuscan hills surrounding Florence, we opened our eyes wide to take in the freshness of the air up here, the winding streets and little old scooters and trees lined up like dominoes along the lines of perfectly patchworked fields. The view from Settignano, near where our Servas hosts lived, was like a dream, a postcard perfect vision, the Tuscany you always dream of. Beautiful Firenze sparkled below and I a...

Bright and early (7am!!!!) we rose for a special trip to the Vatican, we met Steph there at 8ish and were one of the first to line up, my religion teachers would be proud of my effort. Absolutely lovvved the Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani), not only because the woman was nice enough top give me a student discount even though I don't have a student card, but because of the almost overwhelming amount of beautiful things in these halls and windy corridors and rooms...

We are staying with a really nice Servas host family in Rome, in the very leafy and cool area of Trastevere. We arrived in the morning, met Sergio and had a nice chat with him about ourselves and he was very interesting and helpful with things to do and see in Rome. He works for the national television network RAI, something to do with the news. It was so very very hot in the day. Collosseo/Collosseum, 12 euros later I couldn't give a flying fark that I had spen...

Roma.When in Rome…It has to be uttered at least 12 times a day. This is a city so grande, so epic, so very very rich. Ariane and I have dove (dived?) in head first and are loving it to pieces.We arrived last night after a rather fun 2 days and 2 nights on ferrys and trains, Limnos— Athens—Patras—Bari—Roma, during which we said an almost teary goodbye to Liv and Pop which was remedied by the realisation that we are meeting up with them multiple times in ...