The Vatican has been its own separate country since 1929 and is the smallest country in the world, both in terms of population and acres. If you didn't book a tour that has special access…

Navigated our way from the train to our new guest house.  We had the "comfort" room.  Guess that means it was one of their larger rooms. Again our host was super nice, providing a map…

We find ourselves in Cinque Terre (Five Lands) for a few days. This area is made up of 5 small villages along the coast of the Italian Riviera.  The villages are built into the cliffs…

I started today by climbing the cupola of the Duomo di Firenze (Florence's Cathedral).  This Cathedral was started in 1296 and is most noted because of it's large dome over the main cathedral.  The dome…

Went to Bologna for the day. It’s only a 35 minutes via the high speed train. The first thing we noticed was the relatively new train station.  Come to find out, this train station was…

This time you'll find us in Verona.  Got to Verona and jumped on the bus to our home for the night. We realized after about 5 bus stops that we had the right bus, but…

Back to Milan to take the fast train to Venice. The train model we were on can reach a maximum speed of 300km/hr (186 mph). Although, when we glanced at the monitor we only saw…

Next it was on to Bellagio. No, not the casino in Vegas, but the “pearl of Lake Como”, in Northern Italy. We had gotten an apartment rental located close to the San Giovanni ferry stop,…