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Published: August 2nd 2008
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oh what up people ok so ur lucky me and alan have a lot of time to kill today before we take the train to split croatia... so here it goes.
So alan left off on him being late to a pub crawl i believe. We went to a pub crawl at the spanish steps in rome which would have been real sweet but since there were 200 people doing it didnt work out so well and only the people in front got go. Alan and one of our buddies coli were in the front so they got into the crawl and the rest of us decided to just go do our own crawl which turned out to be real fun. The next day we woke up and went to the colisium for the day. we decided to take a tour of the whole place which was only 9 euro more and we got to not wait in a fat line that would have taken us for ever. So we cut the line and took the tour, we walked around some more and took some sweet pics that you guys will be seeing dsoon. Then the tour took us
to Pantheon, which is a hill where all the government people lived and that was pretty cool to see old stuff lol. So at this point it was like around 2 or so and just freakin hot prob around 95, screwed us, and were sweatin alot so we just went back to the hostel and met up with all of our firends and got sat in one of their air conditiong rooms and played drinking games till night lol. the next day we said our goodbyes and hoped on a train to florence. (we deicded not to go to naples and see pompeii because everyone we talked to said that the trash strike was so bad there it sucked and smelled and stuff so we said screw it and our canadian friends were going to florence and stayin in this old caslte thing so we were like tight were in.)
Anyways the train to florence was only like an hour and half it was nice and short... well since we didnt have the castle for that night we booked a hotel and when we got there had no clue where it was lol. We got a map of
florence and searched that sucker for like an hour and finaly found the street, good right, absoltly not we find out that this dang thing is on the out skirts of town. So we set out on a 5 or 6 mile walk with our big packs and the sun directly over us and hitting temps around 90 to 95 again so not tight. The only cool thing was we were walking along the river so at least we could see things. We got to the hotel and sat down and change close cause our shirts were soaked with sweat and walked around and look for some food. The air conditioned hotel was love, so we spent the rest of the night there and i went for a run down the river and sunset and walked around the city which was pretty cool. next day we walked back to where our hostle castle thing was and put our stuff in and our room there was nice and had ac and stuff it was real. so we set out walking around the city for the day and taking some good pics here and there and just taking in the florence experience.
Dinner at alittle italian place
this place was bomb everything home made... eating with the gang At night i came to find out that one of my buddies from my team was in florence too, joe cowan, and so we met up with him and 3 girls that he was with and drank on the street and waited for our candian friends to show up. so the candians and joes and his friends and us all got hammered and went around to a bunch of bars and disco teckas, we came to find out that our hostel was on the street of all bars so worked out good for us. the end of the night we all got slpit up going to diff bars and i came back thinking for sure no one was ganna answer the door because it was like a apt building thing where if u dont have a key you ahve to get buzed in and of course alan had the key so i buzzed a few times and then decided well i guess im ganna sleep against a fence for the night and ill wake up in the morn lol... then luckly alan and some of the guys came and let me in and everyting was golden. The next day was
filled with lots of walking and looking at more statues and things like that. At about six we hiked up to this point that over looks the entire city called piazza michalengelo it was sick. And we watched the sunset there and then walked down and went back to the hostle. which leads us to today and were sittin in the internet caffe on the comps beacuse our train doesnt leave till 6 in the evening and we take a night train too croatia sucks real bad but whatever we will be on the beachse by tomorrow morn and we r really missing beaches and the ocean right about now. we are tired it of it being so hot and not have anywhere to go in the water to cool off. hope all is well and now im out to kill time.
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PJ
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Aunt Sharon
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Florence!
Again...great pics. Sounds like a blast (except for the sweating part). How cool that you ran into Joe! Small world... Be safe and have fun!! Croatia....can't wait for your next blog Love you!