March 21, 2010 More on Italy
Repeats but there is new info! From March 15th:
I am in a laundrymat across the street from my hostel in Rome. I am wearing my skirt, no socks, a tank top and my fleece – in other words everything I own that’s not in the tiny little blue washing machine before me. Can I tell you how excited I am to have fresh clothes??? I did one load in Scotland (which was a misadventure anyways because the machine had literally exploded out and into the hallway with it’s suds. Not my fault but the management who overfilled it before my turn came up. I ended up spending an hour helping them mop up the mess and got my laundry free out of the deal.). This will be my second load in 8 weeks and 6 countries. And it is not free. But worth it. I figure for the sake of hostelmates I should really wash. Plus I was smelling like sandy camel.
About my travels! I went to Venice and I ate pizza, took waterbuses and walked my feet off getting lost in it’s little alleyways, hidey corners, and extensive canal system. The set of islands that make up the lagoon of Venice is decepatively small. It is beautiful: every building is staccoed in layers of stone and paint that is chipped, worn away by water or coated in green algae. The whole time I was there I ate nothing but pizza and gelato. Venice is one of the most expensive cities in all of Europe. There are no grocery stores and no locals eat at the resturants. Instead the locals travel to the mainland to shop or eat at the dozens of snack shops around. The snack shops sell pizza and sandwiches. So, I ate pizza and gelato. I am round and happy.
Today I am in Rome. Across the street from the hostel is a grocery store. I now have veggies and fruit and yogurt and juice. I am very excited!
This morning I left Venice enshrouded in thick fog where you couldn’t see more than 20 feet in any direction. When I got to Rome it was warm and sunny.
I had the afternoon here in Rome so I took the metro to the collodrum. When I walked out of the station the sky was completely obscured by a giant monolith of 2500 years of stone work. Just there. Like it’s always been there. Like no big deal let’s put the metro across the street — I am continuously reminded of the enormity of history in Europe. There is so much here and its treated as such a common place! Here every day objects are the things we only know of from history books, things that have been the focus of so many years of study and class projects. It boogles my mind.
So yeah, I went to the collosium. I walked all the levels that I could and got some good touristy shots. I wanted to see the Forum and the Paladin hill but they all closed at 4. So I am going to try again tomorrow after an early start at the Vatican.
I am almost not sick! I have a slight runny and itchy nose that’s growing back the skin I rubbed raw. The medication in arabic muat have been what i needed!
Traveling! Sent from my iPod
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