Hi everyone,Thanks for viewing our blog! We've split the trip in Italy and France into different blogs and photos for each city.What we learned on our trip:- Wine is cheaper than soft drinks- Water in Paris is free (tap) but in Italy they'll charge you- Lonely Planet Guide is no Rick Steves- Nikki is not a fan of the Metro- James likes peach beer- Nikki does not like to ask directions (ok, we knew...
We had an easy night in Paris on the 10th, we just wandered up the street to a local restaurant for dinner. It's similar to Italy in that everyone eats late. We showed up when the restaurant opened at 7:45 and we were the first there. Others started arriving around 8:45. On the11th we toured around on the bus and metro and then went up to Montemarte to see Sacre Couer. We then took off for the Eif...
We arrived in Florence in the afternoon of the 6th and had an easy evening of eating (ok, most of our trip has been spent eating). The next day we got up early to walk to Accademia to see David. We had to wait about an hour and fifteen minutes in line, which was our longest wait to see anything, but it was well worth it. We then walked back through the streets of Florence and found ourselves at th...
We love Venice! First of all, we're directionally challenged for most of the time. We found that maps made things more difficult, as not all of the streets were on the map, and because some of the labelled streets are no wider than a few feet.We managed to see both the touristy and non-touristy areas. On Friday night (July3) when we arrived we saw the Doge's Palace (my favourite museum of the trip...
Our Europe trip started off with an exciting flight. The flight we were on from Toronto to Rome made it almost halfway and then had to turnaround due to mechanical errors (not too sure of details). We made it safely back to Toronto, and luckily they added another flight to take all of the passengers from our original flight. We arrived a tour B&B in Rome around 2:00 in the morning, and were ne...
