So quite unhappily the front desk rang us at 2.45am for our wake up call!!!! Not 3.45 as we asked which already would have been freaken early!! So after 3 hours sleeping we were awake. Mum rang them and said can they please call us back in an hour. We had just fallen asleep again 10mins later they rang again confused with what we had asked them and then telling us they understood, they rang us back at 4pm – the time our taxi was arriving!! Lucky we were up already – cos none of us went back to sleep!! Good thing was due to the crazy hour of our taxi ride it was quick so we had hours to kill at the airport. We actually had to stand and wait for check in to actually ... read more

We slept in until after 9am, we must’ve been really tired! After leisurely showering and dressing we wandered down to breakfast...a great assortment to choose from...bacon (quite salty tho) eggs, croissants, fruit, cereals, and a coffee machine...not too bad at all. After breakfast we were off...at least keith and I were off on a day trip on a boat...for someone who feels seasick on a boat moored at the harbour, not a great thought...but, armed with wrist bands that were supposedly going to stop the seasick feeling, off we went, leaving Rach to lie in the sun and catch up on some of the blogs. After being picked up in a bus, we had to weave our way down to the port to catch the boat, down a really steep, really narrow road on the edge ... read more

Today we had a day full of tours planned! Kate tried to get on our tours but we weren’t sure it was the same tour or not as she had a diff starting point! So ben came and met us at our hotel and kate went off to her meeting point hoping we would meet up somewhere along the way! We got picked up at the hotel by bus and headed to Vatican city for our Vatican tour. Pretty much as soon as we got off the bus we saw kate in her tour and miraculously without us even asking the 4 of us got put with kates group! There were alot of groups so we were just very lucky! The tour was amazing! I had no idea what to expect at all as don’t know ... read more

Up again nice and earlyish to get our train to pisa to explore. We had a very average breakie at the hotel this am so were awaiting a good coffee when we arrived. So we wandered to the train station and met ben and kate at the station to catch our train. Took us a while to figure out how to actually buy tickets there but good ol be had it sorted eventually and on we hopped. It was only an hour to get there which flew by, literally with the speed of those trains! When we arrived we had no idea where we were headed cos we expected to see this giant leaning thing in the sky! We did not...so we found coffee! Potentially the most expensively not nice coffee wev had all trip but ... read more

We awoke after a squeaky night on the world's noisiest sofa bed. We strolled downstairs for our breakfast at the Aqua Palace, which consisted of ham and cheese croissants to which Rach exclaimed "mine tastes like jam" (it wasn't until the next morning we realised the little ones were filled with apricot jam). We also discovered ordering a latte in Italy involves getting a long black and a big jug of milk, and was amused by watching Rach attempt to scoop coffee out of her cup spoonful by spoonful until there was sufficient room to put the milk. We strolled out into the heat to start our days adventures. We made a beeline for Saint Marco square (and didn't get lost) and marvelled at the sight of the tower and buildings surrounding (however was quite disappointed ... read more