From Pompeii it was onto Sorrento, a resort town which gazes out over the Bay of Naples from its steep little perch on the cliffs. .We checked into our tents in a campground high on a hill - our home for the next two nights. Then it was off with our guide Marysol to explore Sorrento. We all had a meal together in a lovely restaurant down in the centre of town. Some of us went onto a karaoke bar and nightclub afterwards which meant we missed the last bus up the ...

From Venice it was on to Rome - a full day on the bus. We only stayed overnight as the next morning at 7.45am we commenced a 3 day tour of Southern Italy, which was still run by Busabout, but is a bit more structured. Our first stop was Pompeii via the city of Naples. Pompeii had been very much on our "to do list". It totally lived up to expectations. In AD79 Vesuvius blew its top and buried Pompeii under layers of burning fragments of pumice stone killing around...

We travelled by Busabout, from Munich to our first stop in Italy, the romantic Venice by way of Saint Johann in Tyroll. One of our road stops was high in the Alps and there sat a McDonalds with the best view in the world out of its restaurant window. Nearly all our transport at the moment is by our Busabout pass. We try to get the front seat allowing us to have the front and side views as we travel. To do this we have a little scheme where Avan loads the luggage ...

On our way to Munich our Busabout guide told us about a pub crawl we could sign up for that night.Why not?On arrival we scored a private room (yeah!) in Wombats Munich. The story behind the name is a couple of Germans who travelled extensively in Australia met a fellow who had quite a few wombats as pets and he was going to open a hostel in Oz called wombats. He died soon after they met him and when they got back to Germany they followed through with his idea and...

 Looking at the map while in Vienna we could see that Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia was very close. We went there by hydrofoil, down the Danube River, on a beautiful warm sunny day. Passports were duly stamped as we were off to another country for the day.The hydrofoil took us through a massive lock which lowers and raises river craft by 8 metres! Great experience to watch and be part off.Bratislava is a city of sharply noticed contrasts. It has the old w...