Durres, Albania
I was befriended by a local here in Durres, Albania, shortly after disembarking the overnight ferry across from Bari in Italy. It was an abnormally wet & overcast September day yesterday upon arrival but David, my new Albanian best friend, brightened up the mood...
Naples, Campania, Italy
Before getting to Naples, the capital of the Italian south and my last stop in this my first jaunt through Italy, I had read that it was ‘different’, an utterly compelling city unlike anywhere else in the country. I had read that it was large, filthy,...
Pompeii, Campania, Italy
Pompeii, a 40-minute train ride around the Bay of Naples from Naples in southern Italy, was a wealthy Roman trading town that, on August 24th of the year 79 AD, was buried by volcanic ash and pumice from the eruption of the nearby volcano Mt. Vesuvius. The volcano had...
Vatican City
A sovereign city-state & the smallest country in the world, home to the largest church & the richest, most compelling museum complex on earth.
Rome, Italy
The cradle of modern civilisation as we know it & an open-air museum housing some of the major monuments of antiquity.
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
Vatican City, officially Vatican City State, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It achieved sovereignty from Italy & the wider city of Rome in 1929 when the then Fascist Italian leader...
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
There’s history, & then there’s the Italian capital of Rome. Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, this is where modern civilisation as we all know it was founded. Yep, right here. Rome was first the centre of the Roman...
Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Pisa is a small city in the Italian region of Tuscany, a city that has, since the beginning of tourism, been known for just one thing – its Leaning Tower. I stopped off in the town en route from Florence to the Italian capital of Rome, joining the masses to get...