Flew from Rhodes Island to Athens and then on to Rome. This took the best part of a whole day which isn't such fun when 'a girl' is trying her hardest to celebrate a birthday!! Rome is a glorious city in every sense of the word! It has such an old and majestic feel about it, and is as beautiful by day as it is by night. Our hotel was really...

I'm not sure how to describe today. If yesterday sucked, today was sheer gaping maw of hell, to the point where, writing about it a couple days later it seems funny but back then it definitely was not. In fact I can't remember feeling that miserable in a long time. So, we wake up after about 4 hours of sleep (succeeded in staying up till 2), eat...

Well this entry is a little late ... sorry about that! We left our four star guest house on the 6th of September to move into a 12 bedroom dormitory. We flew into Rome and found our hostel pretty easily. Usually we get lost and I blame Jamie while he blames me and well I guess you get the general drift. After we threw our bags in our dorm room w...

When we first arrived in italy it was very hot, and as i walked through customs sweating but feeling proud at my feeble first attempt at italian (having said gracious to the customs officer) i was suddenly thrust into a car by myself with my best mates italian boyfriends twin brother who coincidentally spoke no english and while hilarious and ha...

Well, another train late but this time only 50 min. Poor simona and sergio waiting for me. We went from rome up the coast again with excellent views of the mediterean sea. we are in genova now and I can't believe that the last time I stopped here was almost exactly 10 years ago to the day. Simo had taken me to the 500th anniversary celebration o...