Posts made in July, 2010

The Tyrol

So after we had finished being punished by Italy and more specifically, the Romans, we were now on the back straight and heading northwards towards Austria. The journey felt a lot quicker than it had done before visiting Italy. Maybe it was because I was getting so tired I wasn’t paying attention to the road, maybe it was the fact that I was about to visit the countries that I’d been anticipating the most, or maybe it was simply the fact the coach was now a hundred kilos lighter because it was missing a third of the bags…

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a lot of it..

I know it’s been a long time since I posted; I’ve got a lot to catch up on. I’ve just been hell busy with other things so it was pushed to the back of the pile.

My last blog ended after Monaco Casino, where I woke up the next day and made my way over to Italy. More specifically we stopped off at Florence. Now I know I’ve left this late enough that most of you are already on your tour, but hopefully I can get these countries in before you go and visit them.

Because I visited so many different places in Italy including Florence, Rome, Verona, Venice, Pisa and Orvieto I won’t go into a whole lot of detail on each and every city otherwise you’ll be reading for the next couple of days.

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