June 26th Today was our travel day, so we headed out for Rome at 11 am and played cards on the train for 4 hours. We took the metro and bus to Camping Roma, and were assigned to a three person mixed TENT not DORM like our reservation e-mail said, and Ryan tried to argue and got into a b****ing contest, but the people wouldn't budge. I ended up getting the lady to transfer us to a different tent and make it private (no random roomie) for the same price. To pi...

June 22nd We left our campsite at Camp Jolly and headed to the train station to take the train to Florence. The train was a longer train to Napoli so it was cheaper than a train that ended in Florence by about twenty euros a piece and had 6 person cabins. We didn't have reserved seats, but ended up stuck in a cabin with a really annoying little kid who really needed some discipline and an older kid and their respective moms. Shew. Sleeping was not an option an...

June 20th We slept in this morning. Last night was cold and very rainy and stormy and the morning wasn't much better. Around 10:30 the rain died down some and we decided to venture into Venice. We walked to the bus stop and stood through another pretty good rain and thunderstorm but luckily we had good cover. We got to Venice and it was crazy trying to figure out where to go and find maps and everything when everyone was huddled in all the spaces you needed ...

June 14th We took a relaxing day in Milan and went to the Arts and Science museum. The museum was cool, but just way too much info in a small space. They had a lot of stuff (with examples) of how to tell the difference in real and fake antiques which was AWESOMELY interesting, but there was a lot of info. After the museum we just wandered around because we didn't have much else to do. We went back to the hostel for much needed afternoon naps and had gotten a...

June 9th We woke up early and headed out to Schynige Platte. We had been told to go there by the tourist office lady and had seen that they had an alpine garden there, but hadn't heard much else about it. We took the train to Wilderswil where we got onto the old style train up to the Platte. It was a really cool looking train with wood seats and was pretty neat. The train chugged its way seemingly vertical up the mountainside for about 40 minutes with...