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Are we there yet? - A looooong day/night!
Apr 13, 2008
(11 photos)
" <Brian's brief time-tabled list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Left Adelaide on the 12th and flew 7 hrs to Kuala Lumpur... kinda painful. - Met up with Lang's boss fro ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
flashpackers
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Rome, Italy
Mar 18, 2008
(32 photos)
"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 ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
tbassplayer
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Alilaguna, Grazie!
Sep 13, 2006
(12 photos)
"Arrived in Venice quite late last night. Luckily we caught what must have been one of the last Alilaguna boats at around midnight! Myair, the airline I flew from Paris, was cheap b ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
tracystravels
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The Italian Job
Sep 10, 2007
(35 photos)
"As September knocked on our door, we packed up the wagon and headed into the mountains - literally. Meet le Col du Frejus; a 13km tunnel cutting through one mountain and join ..."
A travel blog entry from Milan by
sutiramisu
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FOCUS OF TRIP: MEDITATION
Mar 25, 2007
(10 photos)
""Darn it, Gerardo! What´d you tell me to go home for?" Pleasantly, I still had enough money to leave Michigan and go elsewhere. Michigan, with its unfulfilled promises, ..."
A travel blog entry from Amalfi by
modernoddyseus
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Little Black Airplane Clouds
Feb 2, 2007
(7 photos)
"(C) We made it! Only took two days. Fog delay into Salt Lake. Missed connection. Equipment delay into Atlanta, missed connection by 2 minutes. Grrr.&n ..."
A travel blog entry from Florence by
gr8escape
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Venice - Where the Streets Have No Names
Apr 25, 2008
(24 photos)
"Surrounded by water, Venice is unlike any other city we have ever been too. When we arrived at the airport and had to take an hour- long "water taxi" ride just to get to the city, ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
petrest
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Singapore to Rome via bloody Heathrow
Oct 22, 2007
(36 photos)
"Day 1 I woke up feeling very relieved as the builder had finally turned up at 6pm last night to sign-off on the bathroom reno we're having done while we're away. Al go ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
aussiepanda
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Garbage Town and Ancient Town
Jan 12, 2008
(37 photos)
"So I will begin this entry by stating that we have reached the stage in our travels where we are constantly "huffing" it. We huff it from one city to another, we huff it with ..."
A travel blog entry from Naples by
canaussie
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Loads of water... and decay
Aug 28, 2007
(14 photos)
"· Venice, Italy · GMT +1:00 hour Not Quite fixed yet With 2 countries down it was onto the next. We boarded the train for Italy in the Swiss town of Speiz. Meg still wasn't feeling ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
byrnedm
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Beginning the Whirlwind
Sep 7, 2006
(44 photos)
"When Adrian and I were planning on meeting up in Rome and traveling together for the two weeks leading up to Oktoberfest, the main goal was to move quickly and spend as little time ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
danblank
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Venezia
Jun 18, 2003
(11 photos)
" Our journey slowly but surely was coming to an end. We arrived at the ferry parking lot after following the signs towards Venice. I've been searching for hours t ..."
A travel blog entry from Venezia - Pure romance by
schlossie
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Lake Como Weirdness
Aug 3, 2007
(5 photos)
"Tuesday 24th July 2007. The time had come to leave Switzerland and head to Italy, but to get there we had to cross the Alps. Our route took us through the Susten Pass, a road that ..."
A travel blog entry from Lake Como by
peteandmandy
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Venice
Nov 3, 2007
(20 photos)
"I only spent one night in Venice and I was able to tour the whole city. What's most appealing about Venice is that there are no cars. Taxis, metros, cabs are all made u ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
yah27
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Rome (World)
Mar 27, 2008
"My first steps into Rome tooke me to a line, a very long line, after standing around for an hour waiting for our luggage. We inched slowly up, to give descriptions of our two missi ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
kitkatgo
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Ahhhhh comme j'ai deteste Venise!
Jul 24, 2007
(6 photos)
"Venise est la plus grosse attrape touriste que j ai jamais vu! 40 livres de sac sur le dos, 10 livres d epicerie dans les mains, 40 degres, gros soleil, 1 milliards de touristes da ..."
A travel blog entry from Venicia by
jelg
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To Rome...
Jul 2, 2007
(12 photos)
"7-2-07 Flight to Rome So after a LONG ferry ride in which I almost froze to death....literally. I put on a pair of pants, sweater, fleece, socks, and had two towels to keep ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
romero
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Venice
Sep 15, 2007
(15 photos)
"Strolling the Champs Elysees in the morning and the Piazza San Marco in the evening, does it get much better? Yes! We got to see my mom and Larry as well. The four of us met my mom ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
meganandkevin
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The Best night ever!!!
Jan 11, 2007
(35 photos)
"We bid farewell to France, and headed to Italy!! As usual, tour manager Ally played songs suited to the destination - and ofcourse one was 'That's Amore'!!! Ally had a little ..."
A travel blog entry from Florence by
lozdotcom
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Pisa and Florence
Jul 31, 2007
(20 photos)
"Well, the day could have started better.... I missed my train to the airport by about 30 seconds: I was close enough to hear it pulling away from the station, dammit. B ..."
A travel blog entry from Pisa by
hels_belles
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ciao d'Italia
May 7, 2004
(3 photos)
"I'm in Italy now in Monterosso! Yes, that's quite a jump from just being in Spain. The cruise from Barcelona to Genoa was interesting... They seem to try to keep people occupied at ..."
A travel blog entry from Monterosso by
twittg
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"Awake is the New Sleep"
Jun 2, 2007
(5 photos)
"Greetings to all my younger freinds who know this Ben Lee album. Yesterday was out last morning in Prague. Rob has come down with a heavy cold and chose to spend the morning restin ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
jbushie
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mmmm....pizza
Apr 3, 2007
(43 photos)
"I had forgotten that it was only a few days until easter weekend when I arrived in Rome. As well, I had no idea that I was arriving in the middle of spring break for most European ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
jay29
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Lost in Venice.
Sep 8, 1999
(13 photos)
"After hoping on the train and missing my stop and ending up here in Venice we all looked for a place to stay, but unfortunately everything was fully booked. The three of us ended u ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
jag
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Buono Pasqua
Apr 9, 2007
"The Cinque Terre or the 5 lands in English. Beautiful, quaint fishing villages clinging to the side of the sheer rock faces as the Mediterranean gentle laps the base of those ..."
A travel blog entry from Cinque Terre by
hess
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Most romantic places of earth
Jun 17, 2008
(4 photos)
"It seems these days, any magazine can put out a list of the top 10 places in the world. And this week, it's the 10 most romantic places (which also possibly feature high-spending a ..."
A travel blog entry from Cinque Terre by
happysheep
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Venice
Sep 15, 2006
(24 photos)
"We got our first views of Venice as we came in on the ferry. We could see canals branching off from the sides of the main waterway. It looked surreal, like something you would see ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
audreyandjack
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Neptune's Grotto
Dec 1, 2007
(38 photos)
"`You can come back in half and hour when the tour starts,´ the chunky man at the ticket booth smiled as he raised his face towards the sky, `in the meantime have a nice walk, enjoy ..."
A travel blog entry from Alghero by
zento
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A cheeky pre-holiday... and an engagement
May 16, 2005
(3 photos)
"Up at 03.45am for the hour and a bit drive to Glasgow Prestwick, and a flight to Pisa. We met up with friends Si & Gill later that afternoon where it took Ida a full 10 minutes to ..."
A travel blog entry from Tuscany by
idarich
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Made it to Rome
Jul 18, 2006
(15 photos)
"I definitely feel as though I'm in a different country today, especially with the change in climate, food, people and sights. But it took forever getting here from Vienna. Given th ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
shanewilson
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Il cibo, la moda e la dolce vita
Sep 27, 2006
(8 photos)
"I arrived in Cambridge and more or less just dumped my stuff and slept, before Ian and I took a quick trip to Pescara in central Italy, before he started his course. The original p ..."
A travel blog entry from Pescara by
cobi
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vienna to venice
Dec 22, 2005
(50 photos)
"Travel Information Vienna - Venice price: 50 € duration: 7 h carrier: ÖBB hints: book tickets well in advance, it is a lot cheaper. you can book your tickets on the phone and ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
yellowdragon
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These Guys Really Love Glass
Sep 3, 2006
(18 photos)
"Our dorm, we discovered early the next morning, had very strange rules. The check out time was 9.30AM and from this time until 3PM they locked you out. A bit odd but we were more c ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
eatdessertfirst
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Syracuse and Taormina
Sep 21, 2000
(5 photos)
"From Malta we took a pretty basic overnight boat to Sicily, which consisted of us sleeping on the floor of the living quarters, not the easiest in sleeping bags on rolling swells. ..."
A travel blog entry from Scilly by
jag
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It's Tuesday
May 16, 2006
(7 photos)
"It's Tuesday and it's ROMA !! We arrived early in a sleep deprived haze and could not decide which had priority: shower; ringing Stuart; food; a luggage locker; accommodation; a ph ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
scootergal
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The Armpit of Tuscany
Aug 31, 2005
(1 photo)
"Livorno, Italy Things We Did: Slept in (unintentionally) and got off of the ship pretty late Caught a shuttle into the center of Livorno Camille and I met up with Suthan and spent ..."
A travel blog entry from Livorno by
jr_riel
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Under Doctor's Orders
Aug 1, 2006
(11 photos)
"I had worked for "the Doctor" for over ten years and Gill had met him and Mazelle many times but still we weren't sure how a couple of weeks on their yacht would turn out - and I a ..."
A travel blog entry from Capri by
easties
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Farewelling The Chad
Nov 1, 2006
(9 photos)
"After bragging about my cheap flight from Prague to Roma for weeks, I got royally dudded by Sky Europe who managed to say that the computer printout I had saying my flight was 11 p ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
catters
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Finally arrived!
Mar 17, 2006
(19 photos)
"I was greeted to Rome with clear blue skies, though it was rather chilly at 7 o'clock in the morning. After freshening up at the hostel I hit the ground running despite having only ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
aussierach
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Venice, Italy
Mar 23, 2006
(5 photos)
"What a great day. We left our hotel and headed for Venice, with rain clouds still hanging above. But they didn't stay around long, yielding to the blue sky and warm spring sun - ex ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
akawally
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Watching the Sun Rise
Jul 3, 2006
(8 photos)
"I never slept when I was in Rimini. My mind, fueled by wine and coffee, was always spinning with thoughts of what to do next. To work or not to work? To stay or move on and to wher ..."
A travel blog entry from Rimini by
bootsmade4wlkin
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OUTBURST
Apr 5, 2006
""Necessito tener amarrados los pies en el aire. Se que soy nada mas que menos que yo podria ser." (I need to have my feet planted in the air. I know I'm nothing more than less than ..."
A travel blog entry from Florence by
modernoddyseus
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That prayer worked
Jan 7, 2006
(5 photos)
"Well holy shit... How we made it, I am still unsure of. In flying cheaply out of Paris we used a company that only flies out of Beauvais (a town a little over an hour away) and int ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
collenberg
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Rome Italy
Dec 23, 2006
(3 photos)
"The last few months have been very busy for us work wise. All work and no play is very dull so we decided to get away for the Christmas break to Rome, Italy. My (Caroli ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
m-and-c
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Sister, Sister ... didn't know how much I missed y
Oct 16, 2005
(96 photos)
"Even before I arrived, I had decided that Rome was going to be one of the highlights of my trip. Thankfully, even my sister being there wasn't able to muck it up ;) Kidding, of cou ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
mishaley
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breezy toscano living
Jan 6, 2006
(5 photos)
" getting there ....not as simple as it sounds. Montefollonico isn't very far from Sienna, distance wise, but the Tuscan hills are travessed by a series of small, winding and confu ..."
A travel blog entry from Montefollonico by
mhaebich
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Lovely (but sinking) city of Venice..
Apr 3, 2004
(1 photo)
"We only had time for a quick stop in Venice, but did our best to cram as much in as possible, a loooooong day. Firstly a Gondola ride, the Romance of it all was a bit overwhelming ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
itsem
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Back to the mainland - This time ITALY!
Sep 8, 2005
(23 photos)
"Hello again!! Finally arrived in Rome, to get here we had to get on a few light plates from santorini to athens, then athens to rome. Had so much turbulence coming into Italy - twa ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
clintonb
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Torino Ice 2005
Jan 29, 2005
(8 photos)
"The European Figure Skating Championships were going to be in Turin at the end of January and it's probably the closest I'll ever get to the Worlds or Olympics, so I decided to go. ..."
A travel blog entry from Turin by
lucinate
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Pisa
May 18, 2005
(2 photos)
"History: The town of Pisa is of Etruscan origin. In 179 B.C. it became a Roman colony and in 89 B.C. a Roman municipium. Pisa was an important naval base for the Romans. In the Mid ..."
A travel blog entry from Pisa by
benandtrudie
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Romantic Venice
Aug 20, 2005
(4 photos)
"We travelled 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 ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
heatheravan
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Mama mia, Italia!
Sep 17, 2005
(4 photos)
"We departed Split on a huge ferry and set sail into a great sunset. Destination, Venice. We actually arrived in Chioggia which turned out to be an hour bus ride from Venice after a ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
mightylongway
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Acting Immortal in the Eternal City
Jan 24, 2005
(9 photos)
"Yesterday I landed in Rome with half of my group. The people are really incredible and we are all acting like its "Freshmen Welcome Week" all over again. I've made a lot of great f ..."
A travel blog entry from Roma by
bdprice
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The Eternal City
May 2, 2005
"We stepped off the subway and directly in front of us was the Colusseum. Tina´s first view of Rome, one of the most interesting and important cities in the world. I had been here 1 ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
barrettbingley
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'When in Rome (.................)!'
Jun 5, 2004
(16 photos)
"This trip has begun with a very fuzzy plan, along the lines of a pub chat with Jay months ago in London. Hey, we should go away again....how about Europe.....um, Italy...Venice? In ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
shmikes
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The Eternal City.
Apr 25, 2006
(32 photos)
"Finally some vacation!!! It was about time after close to three months of hard work in Madrid. I have just spent a long sunny weekend (Friday to Tuesday) in the Italian capital wit ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
stevefn
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Legs
Jul 19, 2006
(3 photos)
""Booked for a long time." The boat from Greece was a bit bizarre. I think it must have been part of a longer cruise as there were people in the swimming pool when I got on, and Asi ..."
A travel blog entry from Milan by
siscri
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Nice is nice but Florence's quicker.
Sep 15, 2004
"The last few days have involved lots of train time. We left Barcelona and took the am train to Nice. I might add that I woke up at 5am that morning and went out to try and use the ..."
A travel blog entry from Florence by
rebn
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Italy, sadly, the end of 96
Nov 6, 1996
"Across on the ferry, straight through Germany but we made a mistake. There was snow on the road and as we passed through Fussen, we should have gone to Neuschwanstein. Home of the ..."
A travel blog entry from Verona by
uncle_davros
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Burnt out in Rome
Aug 6, 2004
(8 photos)
"Well I'm back in Italy, this time the great city of Rome. It was a 24-hour journey from Corfu to Rome, by overnight ferry (where I slept on the floor), four trains (one of which st ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
orangenemo
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Livin' La Dolce Vita
Jun 18, 2004
(10 photos)
"Centuries-old churches tucked away down alleys of modern cities; seaside towns that smell like perfume; and a bounty of fresh vegetables, homemade sweets, and Tuscany wine. Italy h ..."
A travel blog entry from The Tuscany by
jill_and_andy
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Rome in a Day
May 6, 2004
"Rome: December 2000: I had a bone to pick with the Romans after ill-treating Boudicca and ravaging our country leaving nothing but civilisation, mosaics and straight roads. Unfortu ..."
A travel blog entry from Rome by
supertrampz
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I'll be Comin' Round the Mountain....
Aug 2, 2002
(6 photos)
"I arrived into Venice at 8am and stored my pack in the train station baggage storage before heading off to explore Venice. It was absolutely stunning. The sun was shining and I was ..."
A travel blog entry from Venice by
whereshegoes
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