Our last stop of the tour, Rome. Pretty much the longest standing city in the world. Rome is definitely something to see. The Coliseum, the ancient Roman Empire ruins, the Vatican (which is technically it’s own separate country). It is incredible to see all of this stuff, and how old it has been around for. [...]
You wouldn’t think that the leaning tower is really leaning that much, but holy god… You would not believe the size of that thing when you get there, about 200′ tall and is it ever leaning! The top is 14′ over from where it should be. It is huge. We also went to an Italian [...]
Everywhere. Literally, everywhere. Especially the African guys, who try to sell you imitation Gucci sunglasses, Rolex watches, etc. So Matt sees a pair of sunglasses he kinda likes…
Matt: “So how much?”
African: “$50″
Matt: “Oh, well I only have $15″ as he slowly starts to walk away
African: “$30″
Matt: “I only have $15″ Matt says
African: “$20″
Matt: “All I [...]
What a whole different world. Venice has turned into strictly an island for tourists. Few people actually live on the island. No cars are allowed on the island, and you have to get their by boat. The small roads/alleys go on in a forever maze, making it quite easy to get lost. Some of the [...]
Monaco. The richest area in the world. That explains it all when you arrive into Monte Carlo. Lamborghini’s, Ferrari’s, Bentley’s, Aston Martin’s, Maserati’s, etc. Pretty much everywhere you look. And they race these things in sport car rallys along the coast up high in the mountains! Its incredible.. Then the huge boat marina has ridiculous [...]
Nice is the big tourist area in France. Beautiful beaches… They also happened to have an Ironman event take place the weekend we were here. Over 1,700 men dove into the sea and took off swimming for miles at 6:30 on Sunday morning. They had thousands of very nice expensive road bikes lined up for [...]
From London we took the Eurorail under the English Chunnel (the tunnel under the English Channel) info France. The Eurorail is nuts, they can get near 400mph. We arrived in Paris, got off the train, and ran right into a group of gypsies just waiting to gyp us. Literally. Definitely something you do not see [...]
The start of our tour took place in England. Our family met up with about 32 other tourists at a beautiful hotel in London. I have never been over seas before, but let me tell you about something… Jetlag. You wouldn’t think that it would be that bad. Holy cow. I couldn’t believe it. 6hrs [...]