Existing Member?

Jim and Nic go 'round the world in 180 Days

Trip: Round the World in 180 days

There are [162] stories from my trip: Round the World in 180 days


Reggio Calabria - home of the Yacopettis

ITALY | Wednesday, 7 Oct 2009 | Views [397]

Tuesday 6 th October Reggio Calabria The Italian train system continues to challenge and entertain. Arriving at the Napoli Statzione Centrale with plenty of time to spare we noticed ... Read more >


Pompeii

ITALY | Wednesday, 7 Oct 2009 | Views [438]

Monday 5 th October Pompeii A very relaxing start with a 9:00am wake up followed by a lovely breakfast with gorgeous waiters. This may be a dirty town, but the men are handsome! ... Read more >


Isle of Capri

ITALY | Wednesday, 7 Oct 2009 | Views [1415]

Sunday 4 th October Napoli Travelling on the Italian rail system is certainly interesting. We booked our ticket from Florence to Naples a few days ago and thought nothing of it.... Read more >


Big night out in Florence

ITALY | Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 | Views [423] | Comments [1]

Saturday 3 rd December A little slower this morning after both of us are suffering slightly from the night before. (Damn that Italian beer and those cocktails on the balcony). We visited the ... Read more >


Uffizzi madness

ITALY | Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 | Views [447]

Friday 2 nd October Florence Breakfast in the monastery was very good. We should mention that this is a three (European) star monastery that sends around the bell boy when you ... Read more >


Firenza

ITALY | Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 | Views [573]

Thursday 1 st October Firenza On arrival in Florence, we headed to our hotel recommended, again, by Andy in Berlin; the Hotel Morandi alla Crocetta. This beautiful old building ... Read more >


Shit happens

ITALY | Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 | Views [456] | Comments [2]

Wednesday 31 st September Venice Some days can just go from bad to worse. During our visit to the Archaeological Museum off St Marks Square, Nic noticed a very interesting ... Read more >


The classiest glassiest town in the world.

ITALY | Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009 | Views [320]

Tuesday 30 th October Murano Murano is known as the glass capitol of the world and today we discovered why. We caught the canal bus from the main island to Murano and then walked ... Read more >


Venice

ITALY | Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009 | Views [364]

Venice Monday 29 th September Venice gets six million visitors per year. We think that five and a half million were in St Marks Square when we arrived at 9:00am this morning. ... Read more >


Disney-Dubrovnic

CROATIA | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [640] | Comments [2]

Sunday 28 th September Dubrovnik As we travelled on our bus from the port to the old city we spoke to a lovely Australian couple, Thelma and Rob, who had been here before. We ... Read more >


It's all greek to us

GREECE | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [458]

Saturday 26 th September Argostoli Well we didn't expect this! Rain in the Greek islands! We awoke to rain on our balcony and decided that we had made the ... Read more >


Acropolis Now

GREECE | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [598]

Friday 25 th September Piraeus/Athens Piraeus is not a particularly pretty port, then again, Athens is not a particularly pretty city. But the Acropolis is fairly outstanding.... Read more >


Snorkle in Rhodes

GREECE | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [417]

Thursday 24 th September Rhodes At sunrise we were able to see the coast of Rhodes Island. On the other side of the boat we can see the Turkish coast only 12 kms away. We chose ... Read more >


Somewhere in the Aegean Sea

GREECE | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [504]

Wednesday 23 rd September Somewhere in the Aegean Sea We're heading from the Italian to the Grecian coast today. We passed through the Canal of Ithica and then traveled through ... Read more >


Bari Boys

ITALY | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [330]

Tuesday 22 nd September Bari We decided that today would be our chill day on the boat. Booked into the spa for a 45 minute Thai massage and spent some time in the sauna, a ... Read more >


Train Crash in Milano - Racing to Venice

ITALY | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [380]

Venicia Early start to get the train to Milano and then onto Venizia. All went well until about 30 minutes from Milano when the train stopped. Evidently there was a train crash near Milano ... Read more >


Portafino with Sergio

ITALY | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [306]

Sunday 20 th September Portofino Sergio planned that we would visit Portofino today. After the big night out we all slept late and finally got on the road at midday. ... Read more >


Genoa

ITALY | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [269]

Saturday 19 th September Genova Six thirty am is a seriously ugly time to wake up , but we have to be on our way again. Presently we're on the express train from Zürich to ... Read more >


The Gift of Zurich

SWITZERLAND | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [747]

Friday 18 th September Zürich This morning we awoke early to ready ourselves for the adventure ahead ... only we didn't quite know what or where that was. Norbert and Gerd have ... Read more >


A day of Rest

GERMANY | Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | Views [414]

Thursday 18 th   September Eislengen A day of rest.   Norbert at work.   Nic and Gerd at the Mercedes Museum.   Jim uploading and washing.   Our last night tonight with Norbert an Gerd and two friends for dinner.


< Previous1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next >