Bologna & Florence 02/10/2014

Well San Marino was scrapped today, we couldn't be bothered with driving for 2h30m after the past two days, so we decided to change the plan and go to bologna, home of the famous spaghetti Bolognese called Ragu. We went up the one of the Two Towers as one was in half and about sunk into the groud, the other was extremely tall, with creaking wooden steps all the way up and the occasional floor to rest at this must have took a good 10/15 mins to get up. 

(Bologna from above)

We then went to see the Bologna Carhederal, honestly I've seen that many now I could probably build my own.

(Outside the Cathederal)

(Inside the Cathederal)

We also visited Neptunes Fountain and the Medieval Market in which Tammy brought some pasta and sauce.

On the short drive back we have blue sky's full of fluff balls and the view of mountains in the background, to say we have drive a lot on the motorway we have seen a lot, sone fascinating sights.

(Road From Bologna)

When back in Florence we went to the Cathederal which I shown you in a previous post to go inside it. As we walked to it we passed the nearby resteraunt we ate at, this was very good service, cheap and nice food...but nothing beats the town of Garda at Lake Garda.

Here is a view of Florence from way above! Yes we have more bloody stairs to climb, this time we was enclosed with brick walls and trying to get two people through, there was no organised system for this II was a sick ya guy in a squeeze past.

(View from Carhederal in Florence)

(Stairs to the top, these walls also became slanted 😥)

Well that was pretty much all we got to do today, so wasn't a bad day at all, off to Milan tomorrow.

Travel to Italy via Genoa 28/09/2014

Time to leave France behind and go to Genoa, in all fairness I don't have any photos on my phone to show you but it was a dive! I pulled in near a car park which was locked so we couldn't go in and went to see this popular lighthouse of genoa, well it was a little impressive but I didn't trust the area, it was like major oil docks, I kept looking under car to see if the engine splutter oil all over lol. 

We did visit Italy's best aquarium, which was probably the best but about it and I feel so bad but I do have one picture to show....

We was so hungry it was the only safe place to eat! It was a snack and run as we was running late but we made it to Florence about 9:10pm got checked in and but by a million Mosquitos, the room wasn't half bad but I guess it's a bed for the night. But tomorrow is Pisa & Florence :)

The Plan

So here we start, the journey me and my partner Tammy Rudd will be taking starting on the 21st September 2014 arriving back on the 6th October 2014.

Well will be travelling from Nottinghamshire down to Dover in which we will catch a night ferry. 2 hour ferry trip will dock us in Calais France, from here we will travel down through the likes of Saint-Quentin, Reims, Troyes, Dijon, Lyon, Aix-En-Provence, Cannes and finally arriving in Nice in which we stay for 6 nights.

After our stay in Nice we will head for Florence, Italy. Passing through Genoa, La Spezia, Massa, Viareggo, Lucca and finally arriving in Florence in which we will spend 7 Nights.

After our time in Florence we shall then travel back into Nice to spend a night and then head back to Calais for the Euro Tunnel to arrive back home.

Totalling around 2500 miles alone in just the to and from journey.