Only 19 days left (!)

Getting wifi in Parc Monceau, it's lovely.

LENNA ETA: 8:58 AM

a few days ago i was taking a nap and was woken up by this:

(students from the sorbonne demonstrating...they've been on strike all semester)

oh, france.

european vaction part 4: lucerne

Warning: what you are about to read makes little to no sense.

Way overdue, and hardly worth it...

Last stop was Lucerne, Switzerland. From Rome it took about 14 hours and maybe 4 train changes? (One in Milan, Bellezona...ok so 2?) The train ride was super scenic. Likely one of the prettiest countries in the world, I heard somewhere that Lucerne is in the top 10 most pitturesque cities...The town is tiny, so spending more than a day might have been overkill. Lucerne is right on a lake and nestled between the mountains. There are covered bridges and swans everywhere. Along with watches, chocolate, knives, cow merch and sigg h2o bottles (i bought one...)

Overall, Eurotrip '09 was a success--4 countries in under 14 days; not too shabby...

'net

due to my current lack of internet connection, i gotta to get creative. currently sitting outside of the pompidou (would be inside, but the line is atrocious, (would be somewhere less disgusting, but its raining...no one likes a wet laptop))

oh come on

really now? lets put a little more effort into making copies, professor peigné.

european vacation pt. 3: ROMA

It's been a week since break...and I don't know why I didn't write about all of it when it was still fresh in my mind. So apologies for the imminent lack of detail of the next two entries.

To get to Rome we took another (but final) overnight train from Vienna to Roma Termini. Once in Rome we figured out our third metro system and took Linea B direction Rebibbia to Bologne, where we got off and struggled to find our hostel, which we found hidden in an alley...

Got rid of our luggage, then hit up the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, ate some gelato and pizza...

(losers at the forum)

Alright lazy lapse, you get bullets.

I also saw:

-The Spanish Steps
-The Trevi Fountain
-The Vatican
-Castel San Angelo
-Domus Aurea
-Piazza del Popolo
-Piazza Navona
-The Pantheon

I think I literally ate pizza for and gelato for every meal, and it was wonderful. Rome was definitely on par with Berlin, but I couldn't tell you which I prefer. Rome did however leave me with a bittersweet taste because it was extremely touristy (to be expected, I know) but I just felt like I was constantly being hustled by every person I bought something from...and the catcalling and aggressive nature of the many street vendors was really unpleasant, and got really old. But creepers aside, it was a really fun city with a lot to do and eat and see.

Wow that was pretty generic, but the best I can do.
(one of many aerial views of rome)


(the vatican)