Italy

(typed this up on my pocket PC and the conversion is a little weird... ignore weird characters)

March 22nd- I'm typing on my pocket pc at the moment. I spent last night hanging out with some Americans who are studying in Madrid and one of them let me use his adapter to charge stuff, yay. We had an indepth discussion over what you call people from Greenland, good times.
Just on the flight to Rome now, with a little time to kill. I'm definitely excited to be headed to Italy, it will b4 seriously awesome but while I was waiting to board my flight there was a flight leaving for Dublin and I had a moment of thinking about how much I am going to miss living there. It really is such a great place.The scenery, the culture... It is just fantastic. I really hope I can bring some of the people I care about over one day (although there is no question that I will be headed back to visit or what not... With or without em)
Anyways, three more weeks and I'll be back in Canada so I am going to get the most that I can out of every place I visit.
March 24th- On my way to Pisa now. Woot. Rome was as epic as I imagined. I got lost a lot though. Getting lost in a foreign city can be fun and adventurey but I kept doing it when I was hungry which just made me all grumpy. I saw a lot of the major Roman sites but due to time and money constraints I didn't go inside many. The colusseum was really packed and I just didn't want to wait in line for hours, especially because of all the time I'd lost getting, well, lost. Went inside the parthenon tho as that was one I was really interested in.
After all that, got back to the hostel for my second night in Rome (spent the first being talked at by a very chatty french canadian girl). I had to figure out a way to wake myself up the next morning without an alarm. My phone is in Ireland and they don™€t exactly do wake up calls in hostels. It all worked out tho a here I am. I'm only going to be in Pisa a couple of hours to see the tower, then off to Venice. Going to have to work out some train ticket issues between now and then but no worries.
Not sure what I'll get up to in Venice, it just sounds like such a cool place. Apperently it's easy to get lost so I'm a tiny bit worried but I'll make it work even if I have to grab a cab.
Heading out of Pisa now. On a train to Florence and from there I catch a train to Venice. Will have a couple hours to kill so I might poke around a bit but I'll be back in Florence in a couple days so I will have more time then. Pisa was cool to see but the stuff around the tower is definitely more impressive than the tower itself, and I expected it to lean more. I need to stop getting lost in Italy. It wasn't that fun to begin with and it gets less so each time.
In Florence now but between a late train and slow fast food, no time to explore. I know I'm kind of writing about mundane things at this point but there is always a lot of down time on travel days. At least today I got to explore Pisa, my next real travel day is Florence to Pisa airport, flying to Frankfurt then taking a train to Munich, oh boy. I think I'll have a bit of Frankfurt exploring time to break things up at least. Anyways, off to find my next train but I'll probably be writing again later.
March 25- Just after midnight now. Ended up sitting with a super wealthy couple from Montreal on the train. They were a little snooty but thought it was cool I was watching friends on my laptop, cause ya know, they sold on of their ranches to Matt LeBlanc. No big deal.
So, I got lost in Venice but it didn't last that long and was okay as this city is so cool. No cars! All boats! Seriously its awesome. This hostel on the other hand, worst I've ever stayed at. I™€m in a top bunk with no ladder to get in or out of bed, had to pay 5 euro for sheets, there is no wifi but the website said there was. Etc etc, the list goes on. Its bad enough that I am thinking of heading to Florence a day early. I made some fun friends tho, some of the girls in my room. We went out with some other girls and a couple guys who work at the hostel tonight. 2 euro cocktails, yay... So I'm just going to figure out what I'm doing once I wake up. G'nite.
Yay for Venice. I love this city. I went to Saint Marco's square and then spent the day wandering. I am so in love with venitian masks, they are just gorgeous. I wish I had more room in my bag so I could buy one. I haven't bought myself anything. No room in my bag and no money in my bank. I™€m going to stay put in this hostel for another night, just suck it up. Then Florence tomorrow for my last full day in italy, which is really growing on me.

March 26th- So, I showed up an hour and a half before my train leaves for Florence, woops. I am currently sitting beside a crazy old Itallian woman who is talking to herself quite angrily. Joy.
I'm going to miss Venice, great city. Went out for icecream last night with the same girls as the night before. Fun was had. I won™€t have long in Florence so I will need to check it out super speedy style. But I also need to spend a good chunk of time planning out the germany leg of my trip. I have this sheet of written directions that has pretty much been my bible. What I need to do, when and directions on how to get everywhere. I have them done up to arriving in Frankfurt but then need to get myself to the train station, then to Munich, then to my hostel. And that's just tomorrow. Plus, I really need to get on booking the rest of my accomidations and flights. Murr.

March 27- So totally didn't get to booking anything. Really going to regret that when I'm staying in some dive in london. My excuse, I love this hostel waaaay too much. It is seriously the best ever. For now tho I need to sleep. I have nothing but travel time tomorrow so I'm sure i'll get to it.
Now sitting in the Pisa airport just waiting for my flight to Frankfurt, seems like a good time to wrap up my italy blog. Hopefully I can post it tonight when I get to the hostel. Anyways, this country was a lot of fun. Surprisingly venice was my favourite, despite the lame hostel. Florence on the other hand, best hostel ever. Getting to go for a swim was exactly what I needed to unwind.
Now I'm on the plane after the worst wait ever. I had heard this airport sucks, turns out it's true. Now i've lost my train of thought on what I wanted to say about Italy. Its cool, you should go?
My parents are off to mexico today, which would be nice too. Had a really hot day in Venice, it was awesome. I hope the weather is nice when I get home. Can't imagine I will see great weather in Germany, England or Ireland over the next couple weeks.
Tomorrow marks half way through the Spain - England part of my trip which is planned to be 20 days. So far sooo good. I have had a few wicked moments that have reminded me why I love traveling. Walking barefoot on the beach in Barcelona, getting in to the vatican after wandering around the wall forever, seeing the grand canal in Venice. Can't wait to see what the second half brings.