It has been the best part of a week since we last spoke, not least of all due to the ridiculously expensive internet cafes around the place, but we will get to that later. The morning after our last entry we packed up our bags, slammed down our last breakfast in Florence and headed to the train station. We were headed for the fashion capital of the world, Milan, in order to meet up with a friend, Karen, who just happened to be in Milan for work. Despite having reserved a seat on the train we were dismayed to discover that our seats were taken and, not knowing how to explain the problem in Italian, we decided to just put up with it and stand at the entrance to the carriage. That was until a whole
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