I can happily say that my body has finally caught-up with what’s going on… well, it had done until lastnight when we had a poker night with Skye and Scotty.
After a 6-pack of Italian beer, a couple of cigars and losing all my chips (because apparently a cheesy grin and an oversized novelty tinted green [...]
After travelling half-way around the world you’d hope I’d have a little more to show for it than just a patchy little beard that only an Amish man could be proud of… and I do…
It’s taken a lot longer to get these organised than I ever expected, but without any further ado, here are the [...]
As it turns-out, many of the nicest people and best experiences we had (other than the amazing sites and tourist attractions that we saw) were with people who served us food. In most cases, we had a great chat (often struggling with the language differences) and received great service.
As boring as it may seem, [...]
We’re now back in the UK and after some afternoon (warm) beers followed by a few jugs of refeshing Pimm’s whilst watching the Wimbledon finals on TV, I’m feeling quite chilled and relaxed.
A couple of days ago we jumped on a night train and trekked from Rome to Paris where we spent a couple of [...]
A couple of days ago we arrived in Rome.
Rome is an incredible place - they’ve managed to build a city around runes and monuments that are thousands of years old. Most of the roads are cobble-stone which make for a very bumpy bus ride from site-to-site and it doesn’t matter where you go, it’s [...]
So glad we decided to do the day trip to Pisa as it was great.
On the train ride there we were entertained by a lady from Madrid who didn’t know much English but insisted on telling us about her travels and drama’s for most of the hour-and-a-half trip. Even though we only understood half [...]
Most books, people and websites that talk about Florence go on about how beautiful the city is.
It is the home to one of some of the most noted pieces of artwork ever created and architecturally it can hold its own with structures such as the Duomo… but as far as a city goes, it doesn’t [...]
We’re just about to leave Venice and I have to say that this has been one of the highlights of our whole journey so far.
Venice is one of the most beautiful cities i’ve ever seen. It has a personality and charisma like no other. The streets are a maze which we got lost [...]
Over the past few days things havent quite gone according to plan and the one common denominator has been no planning = potentially crappy time.
Fortunately we have been able to turn each of these incidents to positive adventures, but we thought it was finally time we made some official plans. So here we are [...]
Let’s try this again… It looks like my previous post on Paris didn’t work, so here’s another try…
Arrived in Paris yesterday.
Had a little trouble getting our bearings (street signs are hard to understand and not simply due to the language differences).
From the small amount of Paris that we’ve seen, streets seem to be labeled on [...]