Hilton Garden Inn Rome Airport Fiumicino

... to do. At the same time the intersquat festival, a filmfestival, a biodiversity festival and yesterday there was a vegan diner at Torre Maura Occupata, where we did not go because we were too tired after joining in the national manifestation against racism (200.000 participants!!!). In the manifestation I met a friend (Dunja) who now ...

... a best of 3 match and ended up losing. It has been a while
since I have played beerpong so I was a bit rusty. After playing
beerpong I talked with a few other Aussies and a german girl that was
studying in rome. She had just started her semester here. I guess
schools in Europe tend to start about a month later than back home.
After hanging out at the bar I headed back to my room and I was out.

I can best describe Italy as like having a gorgeous girlfriend with a personality problem, easy on the eye but hell to live with. I think we hate the place half as much as we love it, its such a labour to travel and experience the vast extremes of the country a times it hardly seems worth it, then just like said girlfriend it give you the puppy dog eyes and all is forgiven.


We are currently contemplating when we will actually leave, we have ...

... mē. Italy's tourism has a huge amount of offers addressed to horseman. In all over Italy there are the farmhouses, the so called agriturismi, which are located in the countryside, where it is possible to take part in the every day's life of the farmers. They teach for example, how to produce bread ...

... the morning we will take the train to Rome. We dumped our backpacks off in our rooms and went out for bite to eat.The local restaurant had a real cozy feeling.Bottles of water and wine on the perfectly white table cloth with a red one underneath it made me feel like it was a movie set. Everything looked just like you would think a Italian cafe would look like.

... Then afterwards I took the train and went home by myself (which was pretty much the first time since I'd gotten here that I'd done anything by myself--I had almost forgotten how much I like just doing things on my own). And then I totally crashed. My roommmates asked if I wanted to come out with them, but I was too exhausted and ended up falling asleep at like 9 or 9:30. I woke up around 5:30 to find one of my roommates still awake, so I smoked a little of the hash we ...

... a million sweets it was fabulous) and a bottle of wine (double mmm). The next day it was to Lake Como. Only about 45 minutes by train, lake como is a perfect day trip from Milan. I was definitely feeling the cold by this point but Laura kept reassuring me that it was warmer than Canada...:-( We took an incredible bus ride up the mountain to Belaggio, a land of sun, beach, water, and the Swiss Alps. The Alps were beautiful, and since we were traveling in Off Season, no one was ...

... crowd and all is okay. Drinks at the hotel, and then the restaurant. Very calming way to finish the day. 7pm is obviously early for dinner in Rome though, because we walked in on the staff dinner. So we ended up with the works - good food, but too much and a ton of money spent. Having an English speaking waiter did help though - less effort and angst required which always comes from trying to experiment with a foreign language :-)