Best thing about Italy.....

Hey there!

Another week another country...you know how it is. This week is Italy! And the best thing about Italy besides the amazing views, the great wetaher, and friendlyish people is of course the food. Namely the gelati.....mmmmm. I think Ill be leaving Italy at least 5 kg heavier!

We got to Italy last week from the overnight ferry from Greece. Took a whole day to train it to Naples and met up with Jen (Pennys mate from NZ). Didnt see much of Naples, although, what I did see was grubby and dodgy so kind of glad we werent there for long. We took a train down to Palermo, Sicily (the boot of italy).

Sicily was great (despite the mafia and ocassional gunshot). There were NO english speaking tourists anywhere so that was nice for a change. We checked out the city of Palermo that has amazing architecture, interesting, because it has influences of Spanish and Arab culture as well as Italian. Also went to a nice beach on the SW coast to meet up with a friend of Jens and saw inside a real italian house. We went to Lipari, one of the Aeolian islands which are all volcanic. Was really pretty there and we had a mud bath which was lots of fun!!!!

Went back up the coast (after much trouble with transport and speaking minimal italian) and now we are on the Amalfi Coast. We are staying high on a cliff in a hostel and walked for an hr and a half this afternoon down to the lovely city of Amalfi. Absoulutely amazing gorgoeus views (if the internet connection was better i could show you photos). Its really lovely here.

Tomorrow we are going to try and get to Pompeii and then Rome. Wednesday we fly to Madrid for our next country adventure.

Happy days!

Took a train back up the coast