Well we arrived here eventually after a bit of an epic train journey. The first stint from Turin to Venice was actually ok, we managed to get the correct trains and everything. This is where our luck ran out. We decided to go for an overnight trian from Venice straight through to budapest which only cost us 5euro reservation fee with our tickets. Typical though that it was the crappest most packed train we have ever been on. we found our little seats and tucked i...

Mum i have been to church dont worry, but i got the time wrong so i arrived half way through. I am now however onvinced that churches make people have funny turns becuase today another person collapsed. We took Ti to the park this morning for a run around. Other than that we haven't done very much, we are just recovering after a late night eating yummmmmmy pasta and watching Silence Of The Lambs. We had to go to the train station to book our overnight train fro...

We arrived last night after once again getting on the wrong train at Turin to be greated by Sineads Uncle Fergus, It was lovely to be welcomed into a family home after so long in hostels. We met Ti Fergus and Christinas son who is a little bottle of pop and has more energy than us all put together. We enjoyed Pizza on the balcony before getting a really fab nights sleep. Today we decided to wander around Turin doing a bit of shopping, Sinead particularly enjoye...

In an attempt to fit in in this very active place, we opted for a hike. Now in order to do a marked hike we needed to get a train which we couldnt afford so we decided to walk up the mountain instead. ....... here was the fatal error. The hike should have taken 3 hours and we passed only 2 other hikers who were clearly expereincd., but 4 hours later we were about 80% of the way. On the way up there was thunder and lighnig which scared the hell our of us churchy ...

Today was a total disaster but highly amusing. The day began with me setting off the alarms in the supermarket because my bag was too big to get through the barrier. We then boarded the train heading for milano centeral, all was going well when i accidently set of my rape alarm which was not good. bvecause this train was delayed we missed our connection and had to wait for the next train to Brig. we sent the wonderful david to check the platform, he missread th...