Allora, this is my first blog entry from a foreign country. I'm in Genoa, Italy, from where tomorrow I'll be taking the ferry to Tunisia. The sun is shining but it's bitterly cold, made worse by the strong winds. To get this far I have already visited six countries and used eight modes of transport. The journey to Milan gave me a fantastic insight into the life of lorry drivers. We left a day later than planned due to a guy called Steve, the owner of the haulage firm 'Elton Lines' in whose lorry I travelled. He, apparently, does not like to part with his pennies and so insisted on an early Monday morning start instead of the Sunday afternoon start we had planned (drivers get paid extra if they work on a Sunday). So, after
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