The Lazy Way of Blogging by Using Facebook Status Updates Sarah Reinertsen... wants to die and come back a Florentine. Preferably without a head cold, however. (25/4/09) can't wait to completely reorganise my trans-mongolian train trip, complete with NEW russian visa!! (26/4/09) went to Siena today. It's nice but no Florence. But I finally get this espresso thing (helps to have a good one) (27/4/09) really should have brushed up on her art history 100 a...

Executive Summary - Perugia A quiet 3 days at an Umbrian farmhouse just outside of Perugia There are worse places to have a sore throat than the land of minestrone & gelati Don't tell mom I 'hitch-hiked' twice in 2 days...or at least I've been assured that's what it was. The opportunity to make my own food! With vegetables! I stayed at a farmhouse just outside of Perugia for 3 days in between Rome and Florence. It was an idyllic set...

The Lazy Way of Blogging by Using Facebook Status Updates Sarah Reinertsen... is trying to convince herself she is neither too old nor too tired/jet lagged to go on the 20 euro!! guaranteed to get hammered!!! pub crawl put on by the hostel full of uni sophomores on spring break (16/4/09) would never have managed to buy bananas in an italian supermarket without the assistance of the nice man that said 'prego prego' a lot. For the record, one must wei...

By Sunday I had been out 3 nights in a row and was starting to look my age so I decided to take it easy that day, as well as make up for previous transgressions by doing the Colosseum 'properly'. Off I headed, on the metro this time, to come out of the train station into a torrential rain storm. (The Colosseum, if you've never been, is pretty much all outside) I had resolved to do this, so, off I go to get in line, and I realise the benefit of seeing outdoo...

Right, after 2 days of stuffing around/dealing with hangovers I thought it time to do some serious sightseeing. Ryan and another girl from his dorm, Lijiang, were keen on the Vatican as well so we went together. Outside the Vatican (and Colosseum, etc) there are all sorts of americans/ canadians/ english/ aussies/ etc flogging english-language tours of the applicable tourist attraction. We had heard the Vatican line-up is pretty hardcore (2 hours to get in etc) a...