My first stop-- Rome. So Rome may not have been built in a day but I think I saw all of Rome in a day. The man at reception at my hostel (which was also a laundrymat) gave me a map detailing what to do for each of the 3 days I was there. I did them all on Saturday. I thought I might lose my feet by the end of it. On my walk home, I knew I had 30 minutes to go and it was incredibly hot, so I bought a €1 ice cream cone from McDonald's, which I was a little embarrassed of at first, but it made me so happy once I started waking I didn't even care. I don't know that I would have made it home without it.
On Sunday I was pretty much exhausted and managed to make it to the Trevi Fountain (for the second time) and that was about it. When I walked home, I stopped at a fruit cart and paid €2.50, the same as I had for my lunch, for a little fruit bowl with watermelon and strawberries. I was ecstatic. I walked around like my feet weren't covered in blisters from the day before but like I was walking in pillows.
Then I got on a train for 6 hours. No matter how interesting a book you have, 5 hours on a train gets boring. But once off I train I was greater with the smell of saltwater! Some parts of being at the beach are the exact same no matter where you are, and when I got off the train in Brindisi, the smell immediately showed me I was at the beach.
Then I had to get to my hostel. Their website said there was an hourly pickup from the train station but I saw no one so I just headed out on my own, my only directions "follow the yellow hostel signs"
Sometimes they were yellow. Sometimes they weren't. Sometimes they were there. Sometimes they weren't. I started to get a little stressed as to whether I would make it there it not. Then i stumbled on a patch of honeysuckle on the side of the road. I didn't pick any to try to eat, but I thought seriously about it. In the end I found my hostel, with the help of a 14-year old couple on a Vespa, and will (hopefully) ship off to Greece a domani!!
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