On our first full day in Florence (known in Italy as Firenze) we went to the Uffizi gallery. This famous gallery has hundreds of masterpieces – here we learned that some of our group had a lower tolerance for art than others! You weren’t allowed to take pictures here…check out here, here and here for…
Month: February 2013
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
We took a train from Rome to Florence and then after unpacking jumped onto a local train bound for Pisa. Pisa is an easy hour’s train ride from Florence and a good afternoon trip. I had always thought that the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” was a freestanding tower on its own – imagine my surprise…
The ruins of Pompeii
On our fourth day in Rome we took an early morning train south to Naples. From there we took a local train and found ourselves at the ancient destroyed city of Pompeii, in the shadow of Mt Vesuvius. We spent hours walking around here. One thing I really appreciated was…
In the Vatican and under Rome
On our third day in Rome we headed to the Vatican City, a tiny independent city inside Rome known for being the Pope’s main hang-out. We had pre-booked a tour and we knew to expect crowds, but the mob scene through the Vatican museums and the Sistine chapel were still beyond what we had imagined!…
Meandering Kiwis 