The Etruscan Rome

It was quite the nerve-wracking experience to land at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, pick up a hire car and then be catapulted straight into the hurly-burly of a Roman autostrade. I’d driven in Italy before a few years ago, but on both occasions I’d had the gentler immersion of driving across the border from Switzerland and had stay...

Yesterday we went to Umbria! We visited a famous church called Duomo Cathedral. In Umbria, the main thing they export is ceramic artwork. Almost every shop sold ceramics! We even saw a roof that was decorated with different coloured ceramic tiles!
We ate lunch in a delicious sandwich shop. We ordered four platters, one of different kind of ...

arrive hier en fin de journee a orvietto. pour atteindre la ville de orvieto, a partir de la gare, on doit prendre un funiculaire qui nous amene a l'entre de la ville. apres avoir fais un petit tour de la ville pour s'orienter un peu, nous avons rencontrer un couple d'irlandais a notre auberge et on a passe une tres belle soiree en leur compagni...

We stoped at Orvieto on the way to Rome

Orvieto history goes back to the Etruscan civilization. It is home to Etruscan ruins and the remnants of a wall that enclosed the city more than 2000 years ago. The city has long kept the secret of its labyrinth of caves and tunnels that lie beneath the surface. Dug deep into the tuff, a volcanic ...

Departed the beautiful town of Amalfi and headed back toward Salerno before getting on to the A1 for Todi. A lovely drive through the country side of Umbria. Lots of olive trees and farms, not to mention stunning homes – dating back to who knows when.. We followed our GPS co-ordinates given by Tenuta Di Canonica. We arrived spot on to an o...

So Rimini's not SoHo, North Beach, Amsterdam, Berlin, Chelsea, the West Bank, the Left Bank, the Central Bank, Ginza, Gaza, Interzone, or any of the other cool hip groovy dangerous ungodly places in the history of the world, just a beach town with plenty of rooms... and oh yeah, they've got plenty of cheap Chinese instant noodles here, the sons ...

The 8th bloomed bright and early after a night of drunken idiots in hallways, with a trip to the local sort of police station. A real big thanks to our tour manager for all her help in this one. What with me being with two people who didn't speak much English, myself not speaking Italian, and little to no understanding of how the system was goin...

Day 20 The first hostel was near the train station and we had only booked it for one night. So first thing that day we had to move out and go to our next hostel which was located a block from the Vatican City. We got settled in and then took the subway to the Colosseum. We purchased 3 day Roma Passes so we got free metro travel and entry to cert...

We woke up even earli** today in high hopes of getting to the front of the line for the Vatican Museum, which holds Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel. When we arrived we thought the line was long but moving fairly quickly only to find out that we w**e standing in the tour group line and the individual line was around the corn**. Sev**al corn**s lat...

I was up early to get the underground train out to the Spanish Steps so I could actually see them and take some photos without masses of tourists. I followed the roads to the Trevi Fountain and threw a coin in to make sure I one day return to Italy. Its quite a huge fountain in a very small square - almost impossible to take a photo of the whole...