Italy will now forever be etched in my mind as the land of Hello Kitty, Che Guevara and pink. I used to be obsessed with Hello Kitty when I was in my teenage angsty goth phase, but I would never have liked it if it was this mainstream. The other night we went to a fancy disco close to Federica's house in the Le Marche region, where we spent the weekend, and I even saw people wearing Hello Kitty there. I've seen car seats, suitcases, T-shirts, watches, ice cream.....

Oh my god it's hot in Rome. It's so hot that we don't really want to do anything. It'll be fun to try this again in August. ;) Amanda is in the Vatican right now. I didn't want to spend 45€ for a tour so I opted for an internet cafe instead. I feel like I spend a lot of my time in or looking for internet cafes...but I guess it's a necessity for booking upcoming travel. I just spent the last two hours trying to figure out how we were going to get from Venice t...

I haven't had much prolonged access to the internet, so this is my first time to blog except for Day 1 before Amanda arrived... which doesn't count. Right now I am sitting in the lobby of my hostel in Florence. It's really hippie/fair trade: I keep calling the people here "all love and peace". We had a long day of walking around Pisa and Florence, so we came back to the hostel early to relax. And the internet is free so here I am. We've been having a g...