It has been 3 weeks of fun in the land of beer and sausages and pizza and pasta. Looks like we dodged some crook weather back home. Now it’s time to kick back and enjoy the service on our ride home.
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Its hot out there, the three days we have been in Rome the temperature has just about touched 40 degrees. The pavement is like a hot plate and the rubbish well lets just say its not the nicest smell and the garbos really need to come collect it more often. Anyway the city has so […] Read the rest of Roaming Rome
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The Rome ruins were spectacular at night with the lights bouncing off the old stonework. Some of the structures date back over 2000 years. The colosseum is spectacular, it’s about as big as the MCG playing field just as high. Read the rest of Colusseum and ruins
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The Vatican- what an incredible place, this mob must have raped and pillaged the world for centuries to build their head office so magnificently. The amount of gold, marble treasures and splendour is breathtaking..and the size 40 metres longer and wider than MCG and 50 metres taller than the light towers. Read the rest of The Vatican
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We pick up our Fiat and head south stopping off at Sienna. What a place, This town was built on a hill there were about a dozen excalators up from the carport. You just couldn’t walk it or use stairs you would be going for ever. Up on top the city was a series of […] Read the rest of Sienna
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We jump on the train for the hour or so trip to Florence and the senses are in overload the architecture and sights are even more spectacular the Bologna. The humongous cathedral in the centre of town is awe inspiring covered in green and white marble, other than a bit they didn’t get around to […] Read the rest of Off to Florence
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Our first stop in Italy is in Bologna, The city is so old there is no new buildings everything is centuries old with many having modern interiors inside the crumbling exteriors. The detail of the stone and brickwork is amazing you wonder how many craftsman were needed to do the highly detailed sculptures, mosaics and […] Read the rest of Bologna
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We hit the train and with in about an hour we had left Germany gone through Austria passed Liechtenstein and were in Italy heading for our next port. Read the rest of Goodbye Germany, Austria…
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The Hofbrauhaus is Munich;s biggest beer hall. It has seating on the ground floor for 5000 another 500 in the beer garden and a reception hall up stairs 45 x 17 metres- and the place was busy. We popped in for a ‘look’ around 3PM and it was more than 50% full and it’s a […] Read the rest of Hofbräuhaus
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