Ciao and welcome to a quick little post to remember the jaunt we made from Lake Garda, across the top of Italy, to the city of Trieste. After leaving Lake Garda and making our way around the lake, we made a pit stop in the beautiful city of Vicenza. We had decided to stop for …
La Dolce Vita
Holy mother of dragons it’s been a minute. I got back to Auckland and was swept up in the best daily life I’ve ever lived, and now I’m thinking back to my epic trip and how I need to get it documented pronto before I’m old and withered and trying to remember if Lake Garda …
Buongiorno! Two Becomes Three
Exciting times because our party of two just grew to three! We flew from Greece to Bergamo, Italy to meet up with Holly and start a new stage of European adventures. With an afternoon to spare before we started our road trip we started strong on the aperol spritz way of life, explored the city, …
Romeo, Juliet, Josh and Carlo
Verona was our last stop in Italy, and we were lucky enough to meet up with our favourite Italian, Carlo, and our favourite pretend Italian, Josh! Those two were absolute lifesavers with the language (and also fabulous company of course). The first obvious stop was Juliet’s balcony…we are unashamedly tourists. We looked at it. We …
And Then There Were Three
As the sun began to set over Venice we decided to fit in an evening adventure and jumped on a boat headed for the islands of Murano and Burano. Both islands are famous for their respective trades. Murano is famous for its glass blowing, although the whole island seemed to be closed when we were …
Sighs and Doges
We took a morning train from Florence to Venice with excitement high for the city on water. Once we arrived we jumped in a water bus (public transport in Venice makes you feel like you’re on another planet), and made our way to our hostel on Giudecca island. With our bags wedged in a corner, …
Michelangelo is Everywhere
We woke up on our last day in Florence ready to cram in as much as possible. This city had not seen the last of us yet! The downstairs part of our favourite food market was finally open so we started the day off with a stroll around taking in all the smells and sounds. …
The Grape Escape
Oh hey! I’m back. Last I spoke to you I was telling you about some wonky towers and oval squares and I thought it was about time I brought some more literary genius to the table. So, let’s recap, we’re in Florence. We’re living the Florence life. And if there’s one thing I know about …
A Wonky Tower and an Oval Square
Yes I know. We’re back in New Zealand. Yet according to this blog we’re only halfway through our trip and still exploring the depths of Florence. I make no apologies because I was having far too good a time gallivanting around Europe to keep this up at the same time! However, now that we’re back …
Exploring Florence
From Rome we made our way up to the beautiful city of Florence. I was so excited to go back to Florence as it’s one of my favourite cities I’ve ever been to, my middle name, and it did not disappoint this time! We couldn’t check into our hostel yet when we arrived so we …
Final Days in Rome
We packed a lot into our last two days in the eternal city. We had already walked past the Pantheon multiple times and admired it from the square, but it was about time we checked out the inside too! We admired the engineering behind the impressive concrete dome, and used Google as a substitute for …
Guest Post: Sinead – Vatican City
Hello Jess’ lovely followers! I imagine all of you have been desperately awaiting the arrival of the missing posts. We could say Jess likes to keep a slight air of mystery, but in reality we’ve just had extremely temperamental Internet over the past few weeks. So I, Sinead, am here to help fill in those …