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Day 20- today we headed into Florence on the train for a full day of sightseeing. After arriving at the main station we wondered over to a large dome like structure and went inside even though not knowing what it was. Of course it cost money. It turned out to be the chapel of the princes, it was a massive tomb for the royals. Beautiful but like all the Italian historic monuments, it was being restored. This meant that indefinently they are covered in scaffolding and covered in drapes. Next we headed to see the famous David. The line wad huge, but we were determined and not disappointed when we finally arrived at the huge statue of David from david from golithe. We finished the day with some ice-cream and a mad run back to the station, so so unfit ATM. Dinner tonight was s feast of camp fire food. Well baked potatoes with trimmings and bananas with marsbars. After all the shit food we had eaten, this was a welcome change.

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Day 19- it was time to see Pisa's main attraction, the leaning tower of Pisa. Whilst Pisa wasn't too impressive, the tower was! We took some dorky photos and walked around however didn't go up it because it was $15 euro each! Italy seem to want to milk the tourists as much as they can. After that we headed to florence where we found a couple of campsites trying to charge $40-60 euro a night! Wtf! So we headed further out and crashed at a cheaper one. Ended the night with a campfire and toasted marshmellows!

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Day 18- today we hit the road again and head into Italy! We were all very excited to hit the homeland of pasta and pizza. It was going to be a fairly long drive and as we didn't hit the road until 2pm we booked a hotel room for the night in Pisa. Not much occured except we sore a lot of hookers.

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Day 17-

So today we spent the say crusing down to nice and Monte Carlo to check out what all the fuss was about. Well as soon as we hit the main beach road, battlecar galactica was out of her comfort zone. Cars worth more then houses, continually sped by as we clung to the side the mediterrianian coast. The roads were windy, the views spectacular. We stopped for some strawberries that were being sold on the side of the road. Most amazing strawberries any of us had ever tasted! Also at $17 euro a kilo, were still worth it.
When arriving in Monte Carlo, Jez had a bit of a drive around the circuit and we stopped to stare at all the amazing yachts. One even had a helicopter on top of it! The amount of money that some of these people have is crazy and actually a real eye opener to see such wealth up close.
That night we got glammed up and hit the casinos. Jez and I lost money and then before it got too bad, called it a night. caity got to try blackjack and she won some money which was good. It was all a bit out of our comfort zone and many people were not very accommodating towards us because of our inexperience. After that we decided to drive around a bit more (Jez was dese) and we all got pulled over for a rutine car check. They were not used to our battlecar at all. It was a bit awkward when about 8 of them came and shined their torches on our massive pile of alcohol and a tad funny when one of them thought dugalds name was a joke, but we got their in the end.

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Day 16- today we had a very successful day I'm marsille. We where on a mission to find a mattress for the tent and after being misdirected we found a mattress shop next to a shoe shop for the boys, double win! After that we drove to our next campsight near nice. Bit of a rip off but there is a pool!

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Day 14- today we travelled to Perpinong to visit some of jez's relatives. Unfortunately they were a tad mistrusting so didn't offer even a patch of grass to camp on (they had the room). We headed off to find a spot to camp. after searching for ages we decided to camp on the beach but it didn't last long as a woke up to hearing someone trying to open the car. Scary!!! So we decided to pack up everything and sleep a few hours in a surburban street. Around 10am we headed back to the relatives, who owned a beautiful property which they renovated themselves, it would be good to stay there one day. We stayed for lunch, a chat and a shower then headed to marcsilles and crashed in a cheap hotel.

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Day 13: after a late start getting up, we a headed into town to buy food for our planned free camping the next night. Paid a ridiculous amount if money for sausages! Never again!! We then rushed off to have lunch at the amazing tapas again we headed back to get ready to hit the town. First off we went to a flamenco show which was amazing and so passionate! Then we went to a few Irish bars because it was st Patrick's day. I'm not cut out to drink pints of beer and cider...the Irish can drink me under the table in no time. The irish were dressed up crazy and were so smashed, we were content just to observe. No one was feeling the drinking too much so we got our st Patrick's day hats and headed home to bed.