Italy
Travel Blogs from Italy
To Pisa We Go
Our train didn't leave Rome till just after noon so we got to sleep in and took our time eating breakfast and checking out. After an uneventful and boring ride to Pisa we arrived around 4pm and found our hostel really easily. We were hit with a very ...
What!? The Tower Isn`t Made of Pizza? Those Liars!
After a horrible sleep we got up a little tired in the morning. The first half of the night was swelteringly hot and so we had to keep the windows open but this just let the mosquitoes in so I (Jackie) woke up with a ton of bites, although once again ...
A Day in Florence With Michelangelo's David
Since Florence was only a little over an hour by train we decided to go and see Michelangelo's David and lots of his other sculptures. Thankfully we arrived at the museum around 11:00am because the line tripled its size at 12:00pm, we did have to wait an ...
James is No Longer Allowed to Book Things!
We had until 3:30pm before we had to be on the train to Rome so we decided to do our favourite thing in Venice and just wander. This time we took a left after crossing the Rialto bridge instead of a right like the previous days. After some more narrow ...
Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon and More
We walked to our new hotel in the morning and cooled down in the A/C a bit before setting out and exploring some of the sights that were in the area. We first went back to the train station though thinking we were going to purchase a Rome ...
Canals and Bridges
We woke up early to get ready to head of to Venice. My cousin Sylvia and her husband Dieter and their kids were also leaving for their vacation to Canada today to see family, so they get to see my (James') niece and everyone at home before we do, we are ...
On our way to Florence
We tried to make an early start as today we have to get ourselves to Italia. As I don't have a passport at this time we cannot use airplanes. My passport is still with the visa agency in Holland. So we travel by train today. Our friends went out of their ...
The Italian Job
... we felt justified to eat our hearts out. The food was... well, how can one put it? Did you know DeNiro went to Italy to gain the 60 extra pounds required to play Jake La Motta in Raging Bull? He knew exactly where to go and how to ...
Rome, ruins and history
We wake up in the center of the universe. At least that is what the Romans thought this city was about 2000 years ago. Although the hotel looked very comfortable at first, we found during the night that our queen size bed was actually two singles which ...
A day in Perugia
Today we explore the buzzling center of Perugia. The city center is, as I mentioned before, not too big, and on top of a hill. The town is a student town as there are a couple of universities located here. First we have our breakfast at the hotel. Thank ...
Milan for a night...
... night out in Milan. A quick drive down to the Milan airport and we pick up Aaron Breeden before heading downtown to watch the Italy - France Euro 2008 game in the Duomo square in Milan. Of all the games I've seen so far in this tournament, ...
Lake Como Weirdness
... ....yep, snow, again, in the middle of summer. What the!!! Within an hour things had changed dramatically. Our last obstacle before Italy was a tunnel, all 17km's of it. Driving in a 17 km tunnel is not my idea of fun. Boring, claustrophobic, carbon ...
Florence and Tuscany
3rd-5th August Its Mandy hear, I'm giving Pete a rest as we have a few blogs to get through. We planned to go to Rome and the Amalfi Coast near Naples but after the craziness of Cinque Terre and Grossetto we decided to head towards Florence and ...
The flight plan
So I woke up this morning all exited to get to Munich this afternoon. I had been hearing a lot about snow and bad weather so i decided randomly to check the airports and guess what? There was no flight matching mine. Before getting worked up ...
Vatican and St. Peter's Basillica, WOW
The day we ended up deciding to go to the Vatican and see the museums and the square and basillica was both a good and bad day. On one hand the vatican had been closed for two days so we couldn't have gotten in till this day anyway but on the downside ...
Being Hotel Bums in Rome
Our last full day in Rome we didn't accomplish much because we were in the lobby in our hotel doing planning for the Spain portion of our trip which was coming up quickly. Our biggest problem was that we wanted to just sit on a beach in Valencia first ...
venice
... wood. The bedside table next to our bed, constructed with the same material. Breathing the air of the old stones, I feel I am in Italy. Only here the air has a smell full of such history, full of such antiquity, fused with the vibrating waves of mobile ...
Layover in Rome...
We have to leave to catch a ferry so we can make our flight to Rome and move on to Ibiza, even though neither of us wants to leave. We make it to the ferry JUST in time but get to the airport with plenty of time to spare before our flight. We ...
Under the Tuscan Sun -- mostly
GETTING THERE We had originally planned to take a 3 week driving vacation around Italy back in May. Unfortunately, the demands of Melanie's job got in the way so we ended up splitting the vacation into 10 days in Central Europe (see July 31 entry) and 1 ...
What, you want to pay to use the toilet?
... vibrates the table as they say goodbye to the pilot boat and we head off through the small (3km) straight between Sicily and Italy's mainland. Was hoping to see the island/volcano of Stromboli, but it looks like we're heading too close to the ...
Florence renaissance overdose
We had booked a suite for two days and a standard room for today so we have to change rooms. We packed the suitcases and the Hotel was kind enough to move them later on when the other room was ready. After our breakfast we headed out to the Ufizzi ...
Como, by the lake
... house taken separately was not that great in truth (somewhat square or rectangular with narrow windows). We can say that prices in Italy are so much better than in Switzerland... the same basket of cherries costs half...even if it came from the one ...
Roma day 2
We were off to the Vatican amongst other things today, but not the Sistine chapel - the queue was a complete nightmare! We had a mosey around St Peters Sq, then decided to go into St Peter's Basilica, which was actually free to get into. The ...
Happy Bday to ME!
We packed our suitcases, loaded up our little blue Lancia and headed out into the countryside. We were heading out to Perugia. The route that we planned will lead us straight through the Chianti hills and vineyards. It will bring us past Radda and the ...
vienna to venice
... out of the wagon. Baidi followed. We were the last passengers to leave the train. Outside we felt the warmth. The warmth of Italy. Right away we felt at home. The air was vibrant of a mysterious and energizing power. We walked some paces. We stopped. We ...
Romantic Rome
Hi everybody! As part of our search for sun in the Dutch winter we spent a week in Rome at the beginning of February. We found lots of sun and beautiful weather the first half of the week and plenty of rain the other half, but still had a wonderful time ...
Viva Firenze.
We woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Florence. The temperature was comfortable as we headed out to explore the city. We walked along the river side towards the Uffizi museum. According to the various sites on the internet it is better to reserve ...

