I am exhausted! Italy has been crazy! Rome was great fun but once we hit Florence and Venice, things just went haywire.

When we got to Florence, we hadn’t booked a hostel yet. After seeking out an internet cafe, we booked a place nearby and went there. When we got there, no one was at reception but luckily, other people staying at that hostel let us in (one point for the security measures in place). We hung around for about 30 minutes before someone showed up. We ddin’t feel that great about the place but it was a place to sleep so that was all we really cared about. We went out for dinner and all the streets were deserted! It was Saturday night! It was also freezing out, like Vancouver cold. We decided to go to bed early and get an early start the next day.

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Wednesday was probably the longest day I’ve had since going on this trip. When we checked out of the hostel, we had to get on the metro to the bus station to catch a 75-minute bus to Girona airport. After about 90 minutes waiting at the terminal, we got on our 90-minute flight to Rome, Italy. We actually flew in to Ciampino and a train from there to Rome should have been relatively easy. But the bus driver was stupid and what should have been a 30-minute trip turned into almost three hours. Eventually, though, we arrived and checked into our hostel. Dinner followed (pizza in Italy!) and then we went to the bar downstairs from where we were staying.

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