Monday Just over two hours by train (15.40euros return) out of Rome is a beautiful city called Orvieto. Actually, there are many beautiful towns and cities as viewed from the train, but this is the one I chose to visit today, thanks to the blog of Miss Expatria again! Situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe, rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone. To get to the top of the acropolis you need to catch a funicular, which cost only 90 euro cents and included the bus ride to the center. The trip up took only a few minutes and immediately at the top I was rewarded ... read more

Saturday Lazy start to the morning, after breakfast my first stop was the internet cafe to do a little house keeping and catchup on any news I may need to know. I had received a pesky email from Ryan Air trying to temp me with el cheapo flights all over Europe. Their strategy was good as before I had left the cafe I had booked and paid for a flight from Fez to Madrid for the end of July. A cheap flight to visit my friends Dean and Alex seemed to good to pass up. My destination today is the Aquaduct Park which is just on the outskirts of Rome and very easily reachable via the metro. Again this was a destination that I stole from a blog I found on the internet and credit goes ... read more

Not much more to say just wanted to add more photos! Hope you enjoy. Camera decided to work for part of the day.... read more

Early start this morning, I have a few hours traveling before I reach Brno where I will be flying from tonight. I caught the 8.19 bus from Lenka’s place into Opava where I had a short walk to the train station and a little wait for the 9.27 train from Opava to Ostrava. Then I boarded the 10.45 train to Brno. It was raining part of the way but by the time we reached Czech’s second largest city it was again sunny and hot. I was able to store my bag at the train station (after begging for change to put in the coin slot) and go out exploring the town a little. I have most of the day before my flight this evening, so I spent the time wandering around the city. Seemed I was ... read more

Today is Sunday, a beautiful sunny summers day and Lenka has offered to take me for a drive. After about 1 1/2 hours of driving through lots of quaint little villages and open farmland we reached outrdestination of Raztoka. In winter this area is a ski resort but in the summer is very popular for hiking and family days out. Being a ski resort of course we were at the base of mountains and I was more than relieved to see we would ascend the summit via a very long chairlift. Obviously this chairlift is used to carry snow skiers to the snow fields in winter, when it would be blanketed in an unknown depth of snow, but it seems just as popular in summer for day trippers to travel to the top of Mt Radhost ... read more