Next stop was Venice! we had booked a apartment deal right in the centre of Venice, and after a long drive up to Venice then across a bridge to the island and on a boat to the stop Rialto we made it to our apartment. The WiFi, is proving invaluable on this trip, and most of the time we have been able to access it free, either through the campgrounds, or MacDonald's. MacDonald's are brilliant, we haven't eaten there, but we have made great use of their WiFi, some...

Umbertide , Umbria Italy 27 June - 4th July On the trip north from Rome to Umbertide we struck a huge thunderstorm - poor Vladimir (our awesome Volvo car) looked like he was swimming at one stage. This was to be a sign of things to come for the week as I think we had thunderstorms just about every afternoon. We found our wee town house in Umbertide it was 4 metres wide by 10 metres long and 4 stories high. and just lovely with a little verandah looking out tow...

Visited the Paestum Archaeological site. Founded in 6th century BC by the Greeks Paestum, first called Posiedonia after the Greek God Posiedon, was one of the biggest cities of the Mediterranean. It is over 2000 years old!! It cool to see the well-laid out streets with housing areas and temples and public sporting areas - bathing, amphitheatres etc. The temples were incredibly well preserved and very impressive. Then we took a drive to a sea-side village it w...

Cinque Terre!! 12/06/09-14/06/09 We arrived in the Cinque Terre from France, We had driven through Nice, Cannes and a small country called Monaco. This country has one city called Monte-Carlo and the whole country is run by a very rich family, lucky them! The water around it was home to many expensive super yachts and we could see quite a few mansions!! Continued driving into Italy then on to the motorway which was a view of tunnel, bridge, tunnel, bridge. We g...