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So as you know we successfully made it to our accommodation last night. A few people have emailed me suggesting that all the problems we’ve had might be taking the shine off. Quite the contrary actually! The longer we spend in Italy the less we come to expect from it in reliability terms. So we just plan more contingencies than should be necessary. Just think “what’s the worst case?” and plan for it. Now we understand that, it’s really no sweat. We are currently sat outside with a wonderful

We are two tired kids tonight. Been travelling near enough non stop since 10am this morning. But! We are pleased to report that we have made it to our friends (thank you Apricot, Suzy and Alistair!) beautiful house in Tuscany. As ever Italy had one more surprise to throw at us when we were trying to hire the car. I’d made a booking with Sixt to rent a fiat 500 for the next 3 days. After standing in a queue of one person for 30 minutes! We finally reached the front. The guy had our reservation

Wow whee!! What a morning!!! We’ve endured a thunderstorm, rough seas, cancelled boats and finally we have made it back from Capri to Naples for our Rome connection. Let me explain.. We were rudely awoken at 6am by a belter of a thunderstorm which lasted for the next 4 hours. As we were overlooking the sea we could see the storm drifting towards us. I took a video which is quite cool – and if I can will upload later. We got bored of stormwatching and went back to sleep rising at 9am for breakf

Good evening England, this is Rome calling! I’d like to give a quick shout out to a couple of readers in Middlesbrough if I might!? They are my Grandma and her friend Mavis. They are both in their golden (or is it silver?!) years - and both put many people I have met half their age to shame with their technical prowess! It’s so cool to think that my Granny is reading this on her iPad 1,400 miles away. So, HELLO YOU TWO! Glad you’re enjoying the blog… Now to today… We did The Vatican today. Wel

I’ve been looking forward to today for years. We went to see Roman Rome. The Forum, The Colosseum and the Pantheon. Once again the temperatures soared to 34C! It’s quite draining to run around Rome at those temperatures let us tell you!! We caught the Metro to San Giovanni, the Pope’s Cathedral and worked our backwards through the City - almost heading home all day (by a very indirect route) ending up at the Spanish Steps (Spagna Station). The Pope’s Cathedral was pretty well decorated with hu

81 hits a day! Wow - that’s a lot more than I was expecting. Thank you all for reading!!! Today was a lazy day. All we did was catch the train from Florence to Rome. We are staying in a lovely two floor apartment in Rome - just around the corner from the Vatican. I’ll write a bit more about yesterdays tour tonight as we have wifi again. We departed Florence at 8am headed for Siena - where every year they hold a horse race called the ‘Palio’ around the town square to decide something important

Barbara (Italian Tour Guide): I studied tourism at Uni, and did 1 semester in the UK at Sheffield Uni – a small village in England!

A-ha! Free wifi! Stumbled upon by a mischievous Alex. Nothing illegal, don’t worry - just some people don’t protect their networks (idiotas!!). So here we are then! Florence! And what a beautiful place this truly is. They must have some of the strictest planning laws anywhere here, not a single place (even the shopping areas) can you find a building less than 100 years old. The day began in Switzerland as we headed further up the valley from our overnight stop to the highest station in Europe

Arrived safely in Firenze (Florence)! Found our room and WHAT A VIEW!!!! Yes, this picture is the view from our bed! There is no wifi in this place so blog post will be short and sweet later tonight after dinner. Maybe I’ll find some free wifi somewhere and you’ll get your fixes! Ciao!

The noise. Oh wow! The noise! It was just simply incredible. I mean, we must have only been 5-10m from the cars as they booted it driving down towards the Parabolica. Full throttle sounds goooooooood!

Not a bad afternoons entertainment. We have the father keeping us informed via whatsapp. Great spot and right at the front just on the exit of Ascari. F1 is amazing. That is all. That noise. And now ham is catching alonso! Come on Lewis!!!

We sprinted across the station and got to our train just as the doors *clicked* and locked shut.