Shawn

We traveled by train through the Chunnel to London yesterday. We arrived in the afternoon and had a very nice dinner of Fish and chips and Cottage Pie. Then we went to the Thames river and took a cruise as…

The morning started with some excitement. We have had a bus driver with us from the start of the trip in Italy. His name is Rosario, and let’s just say that about 1 day into the journey Conrad and Cody…

We drove most of the day yesterday through the French countryside. It rained all day so it was a perfect travel day, unless of course you were the driver. We saw a lot of farms and vineyards. We also learned…

Early this morning we left Florence for Venice. Venice is actually a series of islands which I didn’t realize. Our bus dropped us on the “parking island” and from there we went by motor boat to the main island of…

Yesterday morning we got up early and drove west and then north through the north Italian Alps and into the Swiss alps into the town of Lucerne Switzerland. The drive was beautiful. At one point we went through an 11…

We traveled to Florence in the morning. On the bus they warned us about the Gypsy girls and pickpockets but we were pleasantly surprised that there really were very few and it was quite under control as compared to Rome.…

We are leaving Rome this morning. Before we head off some impressions of our stay. We enjoyed Vatican City and the museums. They have some of the most amazing artwork and tapestries we have ever seen. We had a great…

On our second day in Rome we had quite a full day. The wake up call came at 5:45 and we headed out to Breakfast. We were inside the Vatican by 8 am, entering by a special group entrance an…