We arrived in Nice at about 4.30 pm and were able to secure a room to ourselves with toilet and shower, oh heaven! Dumping our stuff in the room we headed for the tourist office which was practically across the street. We were able to sort out all the info for flying back to Paris and how to catch the train to Monaco, Cannes and into the country to Puget-Theniers. Then it was back to the room to shower and tidy up and then off to a near by bar for dinner with th...

We did not have to catch the bus until 2 pm so had all morning to laze around and have a bit of a catch our breath time. Then it was to Florence (Firenze) and again travelling through the lovely Italian landscape. We arrived in good time at Camping International. (Camping Internazionale Firence)and found our accommodation was to be again a shared caravan, this time with a couple from New Zealand. Turned out that we were quite compatible and walked together to buy...

We caught the 8 am shuttle together with Stewart our busabout driver and the couple from the tent next door, our goal being the worlds smallest country the Holy See - Vatican City. The driver of the shuttle bus ran several red lights and we challenged him regarding his recklessness, he had some English and explained the lights were only considered as "an indication"!, like to ensure you knew you were coming up to an intersection. When we made it to the Vatican w...

We were up early and waiting for a 7.30 am bus, when a huge ship sailed past the end of the road. It was so close it looked like it was sailing through town, may be it was too early for the eyes to focus. Suddenly remembered our passports which reception kept the previous night, a quaint little Italian custom you have to get used to quickly as you can not go far without a passport.For the first time we had a lot of yahoo types on the bus with by far too much loud...

We were off at 7.30 am and were soon leaving the smells of German abattoirs and pigs behind as we again crossed into Austria. Apparently 6 people on the bus had booked into white water rafting, upstream of a little village called Harming. We dropped the rafters off then drove back down to the village to wait for them, we had about 2 hours to kill. We went for a stroll around the village and thought that with its little cottages and flower boxes it was very Swiss...