Rome! So not surprisingly, that's where we went to start our whirlwind tour of Italy. It is a contrasting city, there are the great ruins showing the historical grandeur of this famous city, however, a lot of the current day city felt run down. We did have some good food though, there is a good reason why you can find Italian food all over the world.
While we were so close we took a day to go visit the popes home in the Vatican City. We had a look in St. Paul's! But only after Amelia and I bought some scarves as we were showing too much skin. We decided to go on a day the Pope wasn't speaking to avoid crowds, I think it was worth it because the crowd was still large but not on a scale to make us cranky. We also went and saw the Vatican museums for some famous art, this was a relief to the body as the temperature outside was about 37 degrees, so air conditioning was very welcome.
Due to the hot weather we thought that a trip to the sea side on our last day in Rome might be welcome. However, after driving for about an hour past many skimpily dressed working girls sitting on chairs at the highway rest points, the beach town we ended up at was not the beautiful Mediterranean dream that you imagine. We still stopped for a break.
It was time to say goodbye to Rome and head back up north. On the way we decided to stop off at Pisa to take some silly photos.
Next stop in Italy was Florence, the renaissance city. I don't know how it happened but on the first evening James came back to our apartment with a bottle of vodka. Safe to say we didnt see much of Florence that night and we were a bit slow at the sight seeing the next day. However, we made ourselves walk around and even up the hill to get a birds eye view of the city. On the next day we took a walking tour of the city, but we didn't realise it was an art tour. We can now identify a gothic sculpture from a renaissance sculpture.
Watching an orchestra play in Ufizi, Florence
The last city we visited in Italy was Venice. This was probably our favourite stop in this country, it was beautiful. We visited Murano, the glass island, Burano, the island with colourful houses and the main island full of pretty canals and gondolas.
Some of the towers are a bit wonky in Venice
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