Two drifters off to see the world. . .

Ok so we weren’t actually robbed in Florence but we felt like we were after paying 10 euro to see Michaelangelo’s David. I called it the 10 minute museum since that’s the amount of time it took to go through it. There isn’t much else there. So if you do the math that’s 1 euro a minute. We also realized afterwards that we culd have walked past the glass doors at the exit and had a clear view of it too. We had also seen an exact replica in the Piazza Vecchio the day before. So the moral of this story is that unless you are an avid art fan it’s probably not worth the 10 euro, but that’s just my opinion.

During our quick stop in Florence we wandered aimlessly (since that seems to be what we do best). We walked across the Ponte Vecchio, which is is a Medival bridge over the Arno River with little shops built all along it. It used to be mostly butchers in all the shops when it was first built but now it’s all jewellry shops with a few souvenir stands as well. We also walked by the Duomo (aka domed catherdral) and the Pitti Palace where the Medici Family used to live.

After a poor night sleep in a 20 bed dorm room in Florence we hopped the train to Rome. After checking into our hostel we decided to set out to see some of the sites. We walked all over the city seeing the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, and some Roman ruins to name a few. Yesterday we went to Colosseum and the ajoining ruins, and then we went to Vatican City to see Saint Peter’s Basilica. Apparently earlier in the day the Pope made a public address, we missed it. We ended the day by going out to for a dinner of delicious pizza.

Today we came to Naples and then proceeded to Pompei for the afternoon to see the ruins there. The ruins and seeing the casts of the people who died in 79 AD after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was quite interesting.

Tomorrow we are planning on catching the ferry from Bari,Itlay to Patras, Greece. We’ll be in Athens until Tuesday and then we hope to go to the Greek Islands for a week before flying back to Venice.

That’s all for now folks!

Alright, I’ll make this quick since we’re doing a whirlwind tour, and have no clue where we’re about to land. After flying from london, and another night in paris, we went down to Avignon. We planned to spend a day there, but all the French Train workers went on strike, making our time in the town a bit longer than we expected. So we hopped the next bus (which left at 3:30 in the morning) to Torino, Italy and abandoned our plans to visit Nice and Monaco since there was no way to get there.

We then took a train and ended up in the the tiny (I mean one-street long windy street tiny) villa of Biassa, near La Spezia. We then took the next two days to hike in the Cinque Terre National Park, which are five tiny little villages on the Italian coast connected by a hiking trail of somewhere between 10-18km. We don’t know exactly, since everything we’ve read has given us different numbers.  We spent the night in Vernazza along the way before heading back to Biassa. The restaurant in Biassa has the most inexpensive delicious pesto either of us have had, so if you end up there, we highly recommend it, and you’ll go cause its one of the only places to eat in the town too.

We are now in Firenze (aka Florence) after visting Pisa this afternoon. Tomorrow we head on to Rome, and then by friday we go to Greece. We’re flying through this area pretty quick, so we might be a little slow to post. But we are alive, somewhat tired, and really enjoying ourselves.

We hope to get pictures put up online, but we’re still trying to figure out how to upload the 4000-5000 or so we’ve taken. And we keep taking more. So please everyone be patient with us. And Iggy, we’ll be putting up more maps when we get a breather from our travels, so hold on there buddy! (There’s also been a bit of a problem with a few of them, so we’re also trying to figure that out before we make more that don’t work)

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