MarcusR

Day trip to Como Europe » Italy » Lombardia » Como By MarcusRJuly 6th 2007 We headed out pretty early for Como as we wanted to spend as full a day as possible there. Como is a lake about 1 hours train journey north of Milan, on the border of Switzerland and is where Star Wars Episode 2 was filmed (the lovey dovey stuff on the lake). Como is just absolutely stunning, everything is just so well kept. We booked our boat trip around the lake but it didnt leave until 1215 so we had a bit of time to have a wander about and take in the scenery. The boat trip was about 2 hours, returning us back to Como. Some of the properties and villages we saw wer... read more

Finale Ligure Europe » Italy » Liguria By MarcusRJuly 4th 2007 So we pretty much arrived here with no information about the hostel and us being idiots expected it to be just outside the station, yeh right. We decided to head down to the beach and man its a nice beach, really picturesque, absolutely scorching as well. Relaxed at the beach for a while then headed off for a wander. Managed to find an internet cafe, really nice lady in there and even had a propper cup of tea and it was goood. We had to wait arround till 5 to ring the hostel up, this place is actually a castle, brillant. The gave us directions and bugger me if it isnt a the top of a hill with 300 steps. That was hard work especially with our ... read more

We were meant to be heading off to Finale Lugure today but we adjusted our plan as we realised how expensive Milan is. So instead we stayed an extra day in Marseille and plan to stay in Nice for the day before moving on. Really lazy day today got up at mid-day and spent to day with Thomas. I think he felt he was obliged to show us around Marseille, but he really didn't know where to take us and comunication was quite difficult!!!... read more

Well the vile crap hole known as cebere station was brightened significantly by our second randoms we met, known only as 'The Irish', joke guys if your reading this. Really cool bunch of people. I was sitting in the station waiting for this god forsaken train when I noticed that they were playing shit head lol. Of all the games. Had a really good time chatting to them, man they bounced off each other it was hilarious, they should do stand up. One line I remember was: -- I can here fookin trains -- Of course you can hear fookin trains, were in a fooking train station Classic!! Our random banterings went on through the night and it ends up we are basically doing the same route as them, bar slightly different dates. Hopefully, actually ... read more

Another good day today lots of site seeing mixed with a fair amount of chillaxing didn’t get to see the American dudes again which was a shame, planning on keeping in touch though. Emz and I set off today in search of the Gothic area, which we came across eventually after muchos wandering; I hadn’t been to this area before. So much to see here, the whole place is flooded with fantastic architecture, museums and…other stuff. The most impressive though was definitely the Barcelona Cathedral, which we managed to get into for free, just before it closed, which was nice. Pretty crazy inside, very impressive. Lots of buskers around as well and unlike in England where our buskers are all bums, these guys were damn good. The best was definitely a couple of guys next ... read more