Yesterday I woke at 5am, not bad considering. Today was 7am, so it seems my internal alarm has been reset. That's a record for me as I'm used to painful 3am wakeups after such a time change. Instead of losing myself in the city by foot, yesterday I chose to do so by bike. In this city, there is no better way to get around. Even when the clouds roll in and a few drops fall, people seem wholy unphased. Everyone is still fashionably peddling along in their suit...

What can I say. There's a girl in a thong shakin' it in the window. I'm not really sure where in the city I am right now, but there's a beautiful Italian man that owns the coffee shop I'm in that kindly helped me call Italy. Life is good. Later in the day: I ended up walking most of the city today, sans map. But there were some maps in tourist areas on which I could orient myself temporarily. I find getting lost on foot in a city to be one of the best ways ...