My hostel rocks. So after I go back last night with my little picnic, I meet a group of people (its a small place so there's only like 20 people staying there) including 2 Aussie sisters, 2 Aussie twin sisters, a german guy, a guy from chile, a guy from Washington, a girl from Jersey and a guy from Ft. Worth. So the guy who owns our hostel cooked us all dinner (which aparently he does every night) and it was this nice little plate of tortellini and we all went ...

Today has been relatively worthless but it has been fantastic. I woke up and immediately got on the train in Florence for Venice. It wasn't too bad (a couple hours) and I got into town at about 12:30. I immediately got lost trying to find my hostel and walked around for about an hour before I found it. The buildings literally start in a direction at number 1 and go all the way up. I was at 2205 but it was like sort of back in an alley, it was so confusing. ...