Italy

Well Italy is certain alot different to France, there are lots of tunnels so the roads are fairly straight and you drive thru them rather than around them. 137 and a half to be exact, from Nice to Florence. The ordering of food is different here, you show them what you want, go and pay for it, then take the receipt back to the other person and they will get it for you. On the way to Florence we stopped in at Piza and saw the the Leaning Tower. Its a beautiful place to visit but there are alot of pick pockets in Italy so you had to be very careful. Florence is where i got my first taste of a Italian pizza. And yum yum yum. The streets are all made of stone and everybody walks all over them and occasionally you have to move for vehicles, they are also very narrow, was a scary trip on the way home by taxi. I dont think anyone follows the speed limit. I saw the statue of David and the statue of Neptune. The history surrounding these countries is just amazing. I walked on a brigde in Florence which was the only one left standing after WW2. Have been trying alot of the local food and had a beautiful Tuscan dinner with the rest of the tour group. Rome was also amazing, did a visit to the Vatican City and the Sistine Chapel. That was something else, just breath taking. And the Colosseum... this was my favourite, it is huge. It takes you back in time to when Julius Cesear ruled. You walk from there down into the forum, which is a big square which the palace overlooks and you have all the ruins of the Roman Empire there, i am sure they would have been the biggest empire the world has ever seen. I then went to the Trevi Fountain, rumour has it if you throw 1 coin into the fountain and make a wish it will come true, 2 coins = you will come back to Rome, 3 coins = you will marry an italian. I only threw 1. Now onto Venice, the city that floats. Wow... It is amazing to think that hundreds of years ago, they built this fantastic city floating off shore to escape the turmoil that was happening on the mainland. Saw the Bridge of Sighs and the Doges Palace. The first thing you notice about Venice is the piegons. There is thousands of them, the streets are small like Rome and canals everywhere. I took a ride in one of the gondola's around the canals, it was great. Very hard to go pass that when in Venice. We visited a place called San Gimignanao. They claim to have the best Galato in the world, and man it was nice. yum yum yum. A very pleasant way to leave Italy.