Italy
Travel Blogs from Italy
Florence at first glance
... cue - maybe a few minutes early since they hadn't lit all the candles yet, and had the most pleasant dinner so far in Italy. For appetizer, Sara had tagliatelle with ragu and I had gnochettini with some sort of delicious tomato mix. I had an ...
short look around before heading to higher ground
Half way through the day since leaving Venice behind we stopped at Milan, as its the only entry to Switzerland from Italy. Milan looked ok from a quick glance. A little bit industrial, but this may have just been the city centre, however we didnt ...
On the road again!
(C) THOUGHT OF THE DAY - The night train sucks, don't trust Chad with the timetables, and why are Germans so weird? It felt like a tactical error on the backpack idea. These things are heavy. We made it from Cap d'Ail to the train at Monte Carlo, but ...
A weekend honeymoon - 20 years later
Hi everybody! To celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary on April 23, Melanie planned a surprise trip to Italy's Amalfi coast. Chris knew we were going away, but didn't know where - even after Melanie let it slip that it would be somewhere in Italy - ...
San Giorgio Morgeto
OK so San Giorgio Morgeto may seem like an obscure place to visit. After all it is in the middle of Calabria and not the easiest place to find. However, it is also the place where the Ferraro family has its roots (along with most of the rest ...
Pompeii - beautiful, extrodinary - yet terrifying
... such a young age. Finally in Pompeii after 45 minutes packed in a train with death heat! haha. Twas a hot day in southern Italy. Well... Pompeii was AWESOME! Not what i expected at all though. It looked alot like normal ruins (as thats how they've ...
Cinque Terre
... and is famous for the five small villages that are perched on the cliffs of a small stretch of coastline in the west of Italy. Cliffside villages and campgrounds don't go together that well, so we stayed at the next town further west, Levanto. We went ...
Casentino and the battle of Poppi
(C) We went to Poppi (which Sara calls Poopi) because it was the home of the Guidos. We hoped to see some guidos, but couldn't find any. I think they were hiding. We visited their giant castle in Poopi and saw the dungeon where they ...
The Hills Are Alive!! - Day 2
(C) We planned to stop and swim and see the lake, but it was raining so hard when we got here, we looked at the map and kept on driving all the way back to France. No pics, no stories. (S) Seriously...why is it always raining on ...
Hello Pope!
... half of it we headed out to find a restaurant for lunch. Down the road we found a place and tucked into the best meal in Italy so far. It was just what we were after. In the afternoon, with the sun setting, we headed over to the famous Colosseum to ...
Roma day 3 and the last full day :(
We'd foolishly kind of forgotten it was Sunday today, so public transport was a bit of a bitch, we had to wait for ages to get on a bus from the campsite, and then it was a free-for-all when it finally arrived, we were crushed in like sardines. The ...
Little Black Airplane Clouds
(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. Overnight in Atlanta's finest airport inn, which might have rented by ...
Walking through St Marks sq under water :o)
The very next day we headed to Venice and had a look around. The weather was still not the best and was raining a bit... Atleast the thunder and lightning had disapeared. We pretty much walked around all day long. We saw the San Marco which was ...
Beware the Italian discotheque
Rome. Ahh Rome. On arrival the first thing we did was stop at the spanish steps, only to hear a girl nearby shreaking. Somone had cut her bag open on the subway, seems her shrieks scared them off because all they did was wreck her bag and didnt ...
Hill top town of Orvieto
A short rest stop in the tiny hill top town of Orvieto was a great way to stretch the legs and take in some of the amazing sites found in this little town. Besides the amazing views from a top the hill the town also boasted and amazing cathedral which ...
Dead Wrinkly Guy
We jumped on a train to Florence after a bit of a sleep in arriving a few hours later. As we were aimlessly wandering out of the station a guy with a cigar hanging out of his mouth approached us asking if we needed a place to stay. Replying with a ...
Still Ringing
Palazo La Scala, cute hotel half way between Piazza San Marco and the Rialto Bridge. Four stories, twelve rooms and a big blond Italian lady who cooks us breakfast every morning. We have a room on the top floor with old wooden beams, a wee bit of a ...
Rendezvous Above Firenze
... the Oltrarno (which means beyond the Arno - or across the river) for some snacks and of course some delicious Moretti beer - Italy's best. I climbed the hill to the piazza and walked around the souvenir vendors and tourists. Chad joined me and after a ...
Crazy Connections and a Surprise Visit to Tunisia
I was up at 6am on Tuesday 23rd March for an early morning cycle to the airport, 5 km away. The manager and some of Tex other residents were already up. The hostel also houses workers. It took just under 30 minutes to pack Tex bike and gear for the ...
Different
... feeling you could be, and should be, somewhere else. Somewhere, well... 'different'. Naples has everything we'd experienced in Italy so far - traffic, noise, people, dirt, graffiti - just here everything was exaggerated exponentially. All that aside, it ...
Venice, Italy
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 - exactly what we needed on our first visit to Venice. At first look, I ...
A few photos from Fiesole
A pretty quiet week for me as I came down with a nasty cold when I got back from the Amalfi coast. I took a few days off school and am now almost better. My housemates are away for another couple of days, so the house is quiet too. But the weather is ...
Palermo
... Teatro Massimo, a grand neoclassical theatre that took over 20 years to build and was opened in 1897 to celebrate the unification of Italy. It is also the place where the final scene in The Godfather III was filmed. We were more that content to simply ...
Roma
28.7.06 Roma, Italy Des fixed a power lead to our vehicle so I could go on typing on my laptop for the 'Pod'. He bought an Italian adaptor and fitted it to the end of our existing power cord so it would fit to caravan park power. We had been using the ...
Remarkable & romantic Venice
IMH: The route from Munich to Venice was nothing short of breathtaking! We drove through some of the most beautiful Austrian landscapes that also took us to St Johann in Tirol for a short stop and just enough time to stroll through the town. The route ...
Verona, Italy
Today we took a day trip to Verona, IT - about an hour drive at a steady 140kph. At one point, I think I was doing about 160kph when I looked in my mirror and saw two cop cars flashing lights right on my tail. As I moved to the right, they zoomed by ...
Picnic - Palmerino style
... Plan B - I'll make my broccoli salad and you'll make meatballs. Well, it turns out, broccoli can be be found in Italy, but regular bacon, cheddar cheese and sunflower seeds, all essential in broccoli salad, are a bit sparse. Like nonexistent. I spent one ...
Off to Roma!!
Well, it was off to Rome today to meet up with my mates, so I thought I'd make an early start. We'd had thunder storms in the night which had bizarrely worked their way into my dreams, which turned into an apocalyptic scenario where the world was ...
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 ...
