Venice and Rome

Hello people!

Ok, We have arrived in glorious downtown Athens, and since we have unlimited internet here, we though we'd get you guys up to speed on our whereabouts, and post some pretty pictures whilst we're at it.

But before I do that, I would like to give a beer a special mention. It's name is Salvatori, and I LOVE IT! We came across it in a Pizzaria in Venice, where it was merely labelled as a "Red Beer". Anyways, it is delicious!

After Milan, we sat in our bus for another few hours, before arriving in our hotel outside of Venice, the next day, and a half hour train trip, and we arrive in Venice itself.
We saw pretty glassmaking, pretty lacemaking, and pretty expensive prices.

We saw lots of pretty buildings, but I'd say the highlight was the Gondola ride.



This is me trying to be artistic with my shot angles, it kind of worked, I think you'll agree.


And finally, the first shot of Team Duamo! These are the hooligans we've been hanging out with throughout Italy, and I have to warn you, they are each and every one of them dangerous.
Team Duamo is (from left to right)
Me (Duh)
Sammy (it's a pink Bo-at!)
Danielle
John
Angie
Vanessa

After Venice we headed off to Rome, where it was raining, a lot. This is my brilliant effort of attempting a selfie, whist holding the camera under an umbrella someone else was cowering under.









Fortunately, the next day turned out to be much nicer and sunnier, and due to culture week, entry into all Italian Museums (including the Colloseum) is free. Yay for culture!














Here we Have a picture of the Roman Forum, which is pretty much ruins, but I thought they were pretty cool.

And the Spanish Steps, nice and sunny (yay!)

We headed over to the Vatican City, and checked out St Peters square. Unfortunately the queue to go into the Basilica stretched like 3/4 of the way around the square (not exagerating), and the queue into the museum was longer still. So we decided to skip that.














Fortunately on the way back we decided to look into the Castel St Antonio (?), for which entry was free (go culture!). It was pretty cool, and offered some awesome veiws from the top.















But eventually our time in Rome ended, and we headed off to glorious Bari!

It turns out it's got a lovely old section of town, full of expensive cafe's and winding little streets like this. We got ourselves lost in Bari for a good couple of hours whilst we waited for the ferry.















And now we have our novelty photo for the post. In case you can't read what it says, you are looking at a petrol station, with the labels Diesel (black), Miscela (red writing on white) and Super Senza Piombo (green). Now Diesel's easy, and Super sounds like something I'd want to put in my car, but I'm a little bit hesitant to use any petrol who's name, to me, reads "Miscellaneous". Is it just the little bits left over from all the other tanks that they mixed together? Or is it more like a lucky dip, sometimes it's unleaded, sometimes you get biodiesel... We think we'll let you discuss.









At the end of our day In Bari, we boared the Ferry, the Superfast XII, left Itally at 8:00pm local time, and headed off for Greece!














And that's where we are now, one 15 hour ferry ride, and 3 hour bus trip later. Fortunately Athens, for all the greek letters that are giving me frightening flashbacks to my lab, has almost everything also in English, so getting around is pretty easy.

We'll let you know how we progress. Have fun guys!

Bob and John