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From Zürich it was time to make our way to Munich, and one of the other things, along with the cricket, that I had planned for as one of the highlights of the trip, OKTOBERFEST!!. Yes you read that correctly, the biggest party in the world, and we were … [Read more...]

Today we had to spend around St Moritz, before heading to Zürich in the afternoon. The night before at dinner we asked the waitress where the best place to see snow was, because we hadn’t experienced it before, and she said that taking the cable car up … [Read more...]

Ok, I am finally going to bust through these. I know some people have bugged me to get this done, and I have been pretty lazy these days, but here you go! I think it will be more of a picture essay than me writing a while bunch, mostly because i would … [Read more...]

Our departure from Venice and into Switzerland marked for us what was the best part of the trip. Not that Italy was bad in any way (except for the  aforementioned problems we had with the Vatican City), more just that I was really looking forward to … [Read more...]

Ok, so I have been back from overseas for a month now, and you probably don’t care how the rest of my trip went. But I told myself I would finish off writing these blogs, so I will.I think this will serve as a great memory for me later on Basically my last … [Read more...]

After the heat and humidity of Rome we were looking forward to the cooler weather forecast, but we were full expecting to fall headlong into a tourist trap, but i think for the most part Venice was surprisingly good in that regard, and it was only really … [Read more...]

After the pretty hot and draining days, we were both starting to feel pretty run down, so we decided to take the morning and just sleep in a bit and watch a few episodes of the walking dead, and then possibly go out in the afternoon to see the Pantheon. … [Read more...]

Our next stop on our holiday to end all holidays was the Vatican City.  First thing to note is that The Vatican City is very small, and you don't quite get an appreciation for just how small it is until you get there. To go from St Peters Basilica to the … [Read more...]

So the first full day in Rome, we do what everyone would do on the first day, and go to the Colosseum! Today was also a very draining day, it was much hotter than we expected in Rome. I think the maximums ranged from around 30 to 33, which sounds nice but … [Read more...]

Leaving Nice, this was probably the longest day of the holiday so far. The main problem was that there was no direct trains from Nice to Rome. First we had to catch a regional train from Nice to an Italian border town called Ventimiglia, which took around … [Read more...]