We have moved on to Florence today. Having woken fairly early again and with our train not due to leave until nearly 11am, we decided to head down to the Trevi Fountain again without the crowds. Sure enough there was hardly anyone there and although they were cleaning the fountain […]

The next few posts are a bit sparse of photos and will probably come in a batch – we are in Florence and the Internet is crap – restricted to my IPad for now. I’ll sort them out better when we get a chance. Today was our trip to Pompei. […]

After our busy day yesterday we both slept like a log and the garbage truck was even later this morning – probably a Sunday concession. We headed up to breakfast about 8.00am just as the church bells around the city rang out. After a leisurely breakfast we headed back to […]

It was an early start today for our trip to Cassino. We had to be at Roma Termini by 8am to catch our train to Cassino so we were up early to be ready for breakfast when it started at 7am.  So it was a quick breakfast before heading off […]

Well today we did our best to wear down further the well worn cobblestones of the streets of Rome. Breakfast at our hotel is on the rooftop garden. It overlooks the classical Roman roof tiled buildings, churches and so on and although the pigeons do their best to dive in […]