So I have, at last, arrived in Rome. When I started up this blog it seemed like just a distant thought for the future, but now here I am, half a world away. Excuse me while I act like a small child for a few minutes and jump up and down while squealing. Don't worry, I'm doing it in my hotel room, not in public. Right. That now out of the way, allow me to recount my journey as it has transpired so far... July 2. Catch flight out of Edmonton to Montréal. Things were going much too smoothly, so it only seemed right that my flight from YUL to Rome was delayed by an hour when I got there. Which, it turned out, was actually a good thing, as it allowed me to get food
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