Arrived in Cinque Terre

Hi everyone!

We arrived in Cinque Terre this afternoon. Its absolutley beautiful here and it looks like we might have sunshine tomorrow. I am hoping to go snorkeling and kayaking and Jessica is trying to find out about a dive.

We saw the leaning tower yesterday and took our cheesy tourist photos. Then we spent the night in Lucca. We took a bike ride around the wall of the city which was just awesome, possible the best part of the trip so far!

Am hoping to post some photos up in Rome when we have better internet access.

Also we arent able to answer calls here as we are outside of my network, but should be back in range by Sunday afternoon.

Love to everyone
xoxo

Leaving Florence today

We are leaving Florence today for a quick stop at Pisa for the obligatory tourist photo and then on to Lucca! We arent able to upload photos at the hostel we are staying at, but will do so soon.

Off to have bacon and eggs for breakfast, Bon appettit!

Fair Verona

We visited Verona yesterday, fabled home of Romeo & Juliet. Shakespeare was said to have based the two families in the story on two rival families in Verona.

We are staying in a nice B&B with a shower, towels and our own room. LUXURY!!!

I should also add that it is a lot of fun trying to speak Italian :) We spent 30 minutes in the post office yesterday sending a parcel home and buying stamps! We have been very lucky so far, we always start by asking if they speak English (in Italian) to which the reply "a little" and then go on to speak perfect English!

Verona is very pretty:

We visited Juliets house and wrote love messages on the wall along with thousands of others which have appeared there over the years

We visited the Roman amphitheatre which is the 3rd largest in Italy and holds 20,000 people:

We also found a cute little cafe and enjoyed the yummiest hot chocolate.

We are off to Florence this morning for 2 nights.

Ciao!

xoxo

Venice Day 2

We started our day in Venice in style with a gondola ride and then visited the Piazza San Marco which we were suprised to find is cover in ankle deep water most of the day! They use platforms above the water to allow the tourists to travel from one end to the other, and police to direct the traffic!

We had a bit of drama when we came across a man who had suffered a heart attack. He regained conciousness just after we saw him and Jessica helped him into the recovery position and helped until the water ambulance came. Hopefully he was ok, Jessica is certainly keeps her cool under pressure!

We spent most of our day just wandering and exploring as many nooks and crannys of venice as we could. We also went on the water bus down the grand canal and finished our day off with more Gelato.

My very first look at Venice from the glass bridge:



















Various sites:






































We spent today in Verona and we are off to Florence tomorrow so stay tuned :)