Tuscany, Italy

We left Mummy (sad face) after leaving St Petersburg as she was meeting a friend in Morocco for a 15 day tour and we arrived in Florence and drove out to stay in a castle called ‘Castello di Montegufoni’ which was built in the 17th century. We had 43 steps to our front door as we …

Moscow, Russia!

Moscow was not like I expected.  I thought you wouldn’t feel safe and that it would be cold.  Moscow is really nice with really colourful buildings with huge, fancy, gold roofs and it’s really, really clean, there are people painting and cleaning all the time.  There is heaps of traffic. In Moscow we visited the …

Rome, Italy

Rome is an old city with cobbled streets and tiny cars and Roman ruins everywhere!  We visited the Pantheon which is a building from Ancient Rome that has a hole in its roof when it rains all the rain rolls into the holes in the floor because it has a curved marble floor with holes …

The Colosseum, Rome

The Colosseum is located in Rome, Italy, near the Roman Forum and ruins of Ancient Rome.  The name Colosseum is its nickname, the original name was the Flavian Amphitheatre.  It got called Colloseo because of the huge statue of Emperor Nero that used to be there that was so big the Romans called it ‘Colosseo’ …

Pompeii

Pompeii is an ancient Roman town in Italy.  The large city close to Pompeii is Naples.  The volcano that erupted near Pompeii is called Mount Vesuvius.  On August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted over the city of Pompeii killing, yet preserving the city with dumped ash.  Pompeii is so well preserved because the ash …

Naples Pizza Quest

Naples has the best pizza in the world, so we had to go and eat some.  We had to go on a train that was covered in graffiti for 1 hour to get to Naples, it stopped at 33 stations!  We followed google maps to find the restaurant with the best pizza.  Naples is a …

Vico Equense, Amalfi Coast

We stayed for 10 days in a village called Vico Equense.  It sits on a cliff on the Bay of Naples.  Our apartment was really cool, it had a butt cleaner! (otherwise known as a bidet).  It had a big verandah and you could look over the pool and the sea, the view was awesome. …

Capri, Amalfi Coast, Italy

We went to the Island of Capri which is an Island on the Amalfi Coast.  We got there on a speed boat which went all around the Island.  Capri has a lot of grottos which is a cave in water.  The water was so clear and a bright turquoise blue because of the sun and …