Day 10 Rome to Florence Monday June 2 2008

This morning was a debacle with breakfast. Another tour decided to come earlier for their breakfast than they were scheduled into a breakfast room that already struggled to fit our whole tour. Whilst we did the right thing and lined up for serving ourselves, the other guys didnt, and to make matters worse, they even moved our bags from the seats we had saved for ourselves whilst we lined up. To add insult to injury, there was literally no food left when i got to the line and even a few minutes later there was not much more being brought out and this morning we were on a tight schedule to leave the hotel and get to into the city to get into the vatican musuem.

Anyway, I did manage to grab something and eat it standing up, but I certainly said a few choice words to the particular people who took our seats. It was probably lost on them as they were russians, in fact I know they didnt understand me as I added at the end of my little rant Putin is a gay pin-up boy ... and still got the same blank look from them!

In the end we got to the vatican museum on time and well ... sistine chapel is just mind blowing and my neck is still sore from looking up at it for so long.

I have a special mention of a pet hate of mine ... fucking stupid tourists who dont know how to turn off their flashes. NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY means just that. I felt like bitch slapping some of the people on my tour who kept taking photographs of 500 year old tapestries with the flash going ... derrr ... and to make matters worse the stupid member of our tour actually reached over the rope to grab the tapestry and feel ... oh my smelly jocks how dumb can you get! how ignorant .. this is a piece of artwork and I will rub my sweaty paws all over it! Seriously some people should just stay home and not be allowed to look at historical stuff at all. ARGGH!

After the tour we travelled to Florence, which was a bit of a drive but through lovely countryside and into the tuscan area. We arrived at a lookout that had a great view of the city and got a group shot taken, then down into the city where we had a walking tour of the city with a local guide. Really loved the city and took quite a few shots. Would like to see the real statue of David, rather than the copy standing in the original place.

Funny incident saw a japanese tourist going mental at another japanese guy, yelling, gesturing chasing after him, almost hitting him ... no idea what the story was there but my camera was ready!

Freeman and I managed to indulge in some beer and admire some of the beauty wandering around the city before we all had to head back to the coach and to the hotel further out of the city where we were staying ... definitely have to come back to florence and that area.