Hmmm,

Well, this chicken got a little bit too excited about Pompeii and completely forgot about this little place called the Vatican City!!!!!

Big Oops!

Soooo,  we have a full day looking around (which, is not nearly enough time), so many great things all in the one spot (well, one very big spot!), first up was St Peter’s square, and it’s big, much bigger than I thought, it has a stage where the pope talks, I tried to get a photo with me talking on it, however, they wouldn’t let me (I was even thinking up a very inspirational speech to go with it).

We checked out St Peter’s, very impressive indeed, the strange thing is that this place is big, it’s impressive, great decorations, lots of things to see and just check out the only photos that I got inside……I think this chicken has a subconscious morbid side:

went for a little walk up some stairs to check out the dome:

Awe pretty!  Next we went onto the roof for an awesome view.  Actually the roof was pretty awesome in general, especially the statues:

Next we went to the museums and checked out the Sistine Chapel, that man can sure paint!  I especially loved the 3D effects.  I didn’t get any photos as you weren’t allowed to take them, plus it was soo busy in there that you could hardly move!  All in all a pretty good day I must say!

Ok, so I can say for certain that Pompeii is the very next stop!

Me again with some more Rome goodness!!

Did a huge amount of walking around Rome, deliberately getting lost to see what I could find (oh yea, and got not so deliberately lost too!!).

I went and saw the Pantheon, which is such an interesting shape, and I learned that when it was built you used to have to get to it by a set of stairs, however the ground level around it has risen so much that they are not needed anymore – how cool is that!  I wonder if future traveling chicken will need steps going down if the surrounding ground continues its rise?

Next, I checked out the Trevi fountain, I had no idea that it was in such an enclosed space, it was during the day so I didn’t get it to myself (and I was running out of mornings!). This was all my camera was able to capture (oh and it’s not straight because Yas was holding the camera up as high as she could, she’s not the tallest person in the world, and there were people infront – I am just glad that she actually got some of me in it – hehehe):

The next day I went on the archeological bus tour, too much to fit in a day, however, I did see the aqueducts, and while cool and important, they weren’t as impressive as I thought they would be (I am sure I had seen photos of better than where we went!), anyway it was a bit rushed and I forgot to take some photos…. the last photo I took in Rome was of a very important place, a place that once you have been too you will never forget……… Yay, the best Gelato place in the world!!!! (actually I took this photo because this was recommended to me, and wanted to make sure it was noted that I had been. There was a very long line, a billion different flavours, it was very hard to make important decision like that under pressure – but I did and it was goooooooooood!):

So that was my trip to Rome in a couple of posts….oh yes, last night we decided to have dinner in town (pizza, we were sticking with the Italian theme), followed by a movie, completely forgetting we relied on a train to get back.  As complete luck would have it, we got to the station just in time for the very last train (and when I said just in time, I mean running to the train).   That was a lucky one….

I am going to stick my neck out and say I will be back to Rome, while we saw as much as we could in the week we were here, we didn’t get many relaxing days and there still was a tonne of things to see.  I am still deciding about my favourite ‘really big’ cities – the big ones at the moment being Paris, Rome, Moscow and Vienna (which scrapes in).   I think I felt the most attached to Vienna, something about it I just loved…but for sightseeing Rome and Paris are neck and neck….. we will be going back to Paris to drop off the car, so I will think about that some more.

Tomorrow we head further south to Pompeii, which is somewhere I have been really looking forward to, so am excited about that.

Hello!!

Where should I start, Venice.  We spent a couple of days in Venice.  The first day, we got off the ferry, walked over a little bridge and on the other side was a building with huge spray painted words saying  ”Kill the tourist”, for a second I pondered and agreed that if I was to live somewhere similar that was crawling with tourists I would feel the same way (oh except the killing part, not so keen on that!!).  But, then I realised that comment was directed at me, and became a little disturbed by it.  lol.

Venice was almost what I was expecting.  It did feel like I was walking around a postcard, everything seemed familiar for some reason, the canals, the bridges, coloured buildings, all very pretty.  Things I wasn’t expecting was the small winding alley ways, lined with shops filled with beautifully made masks and all sorts of stuff.  Secondly, when we arrived to St Marks the entry was flooded, we had to walk along fold up tables, and lastly it was a little dirtier than I expected.

I looked up about the flooding and it’s actually reasonably common, with the city sinking and the water levels rising, you don’t realise how much of a threat the city is under until you can see it actually happening.  I must admit I did love seeing the tiles on st marks floor through water, just made them look even more special…and by the time we finished looking around the flooding had gone enough for us to walk out.

One thing I regret, is that after seeing Ljubljana all lit up beautifully at night, transforming it completely.  We never did see Venice at night, I have a sneaky suspicion that it would look just as stunning at night, however, I will have to wait for my next trip to find out!

Oh yes, here I am on the Rialto bridge (wow it was busy, we had to wait a while before getting to the middle to take this photo – but the good news is that I love the attention, and I always get attention when there are crowds – yipeeeeee)!  See, it was a perfect day, with a great view:

I am actually now in Rome, however, I will come back and post on that tomorrow (I am making a conscious effort to get more photos, so lets see how that goes!).

Well, it’s been busy!

Mainly because I have been helping out with the launch my parent site, which is exciting cause I know they have a tonne of cool ideas, they just don’t have to people to make it happen over night, but it will get there, I will be helping them where I can (although I think I will need to do a little more traveling first!!).

Anyway, back to it…

right, so after spending sometime in Bled we decided it was time to head out for Venice.  However, along the way we stopped into the famous caves.  We got there nice and early (a little too early, but we had time to relax and be first to get our ticket).  We caught a cute little train that took us deeper into the cave and after  a little time of ohhhing and ahhhing on the way down we got out and was able to walk around while our guide was giving us the facts.  Here are a couple of photos of me in the caves:

a little blurry, this camera wasn’t the best for photos at night I have found out.

It was quite cool down there (in both the temperature and good factor).  Since I am on the topic of caves, while this one was lit up nicely, what is with the coloured lights in caves?  Is it to bring out certain colours in the rocks?Or is it purely for entertainment purposes?  I have always wanted to know that (well, always as in the last couple of hours at least – hehe)

So after walking around the caves, thinking about the millions of years it took to create the stalactites and how it would be typical for me to fall and knock one down (however I didn’t, probably because I am not tall enough) it was time to go.

At the end we were told to wait at a station for the little train to take use back up…..and I am serious, they really have a station in the cave, complete with a little yellow line (which I am naughty and am in front of)!

Toot toot!

Next stop was Venice, since Italy isn’t the cheapest place in the world we were told they have pretty good camp sites with cabins that are reasonably priced, so we found one that is right next to a ferry stop that will take us in.

Byeeeee