gotta make use of this free internet, man!
so i was super stoked that i finally found decent (well to be fair, im not really sure, its in italian) sunscreen for under 17 euros (that would be 13 euros. yay!) and then it started PISSING rain today.
was talking to ed last night apparently its so sunny and is gonna stay sunny in ireland this week for the first time in eons. and when he arrives in roma tomorrow, it will RAIN RAIN RAIN. i think hes a bit heartbroken. or as my argentinian dormmate put it ¨ah, maybe he wants to ah die¨. (i do not know how to make quotation marks on this keyboard!)
anyway yesterday i went to the top of the huge ass cathedral or duomo. as i was climbing up those 460 or something winding stone steps i kept thinking ¨omg why did i just pay 8 euros to do this to myself whaaaaaat the fuuuuuuck¨. but when i got to the top it was so gorgeous i forgot all about the self inflicted pain. 360 views of florence, with the terra cotta tiled roofs, the churches, the river, the rolling tuscan hills, oh bella bella!
then i was off to find the statue of david. and i must say, david is absolutely enchanting! and its not just cause hes naked. too bad david is so amazing cause then the rest of the galleria de academia or whatever its called seemed a bit like filler. oh i feel kinda bad for saying that.
then at like 3pm i was like, hmm maybe i should just hop on a train to pisa to see that ol leaning tower! and so i did. when i arrived in pisa, i had no map or anything and had kinda figured id just...see the tower. fortunately after a while i found a map plastered to the outside of an info centre and finally found the way. and the way is not straight ahead of the train station which is what i figured based on absolutely nothing. the tower really is a weird sight and i just spent like half hour walking around the square.
this afternoon i went up to michelangelo square which is ontop of a hill overlooking florence. it was a bit of a hike up there, well maybe not, more like im just unfit and lazy. well when i finally got up there, apparently the square is more like...a parking lot. what can ya do! then on the way back to my hostel i met two crazy italian men named valter and alessandro whom i then spent the next 5 hrs hanging out with instead of doing laundry.
best of all they got me dinner at a real italian restaurant with zero tourists and i got to eat pizza, 2 kinds of spaghetti, some sort of cake and some italian champagne. yay! sure beats the mcdonalds cheeseburger i had earlier for 1 euro (yes thats right, mcdonalds. 1 euro, can you blame me im poor!) then they drove me back up to the square so we could see florence at night. i was feeling pretty good about being in a car instead of walking back up, soooo much better. im very happy to have met those two! apparently it was good luck as we met while rubbing coins on a bronze pig statues tongue that apparently brings you luck. fact.
so im leaving tomorrow morning to meet up with ed in rome. ive got a ticket for the ¨cheapy crawly¨ train. a bit choked about it cus while the ticket cost less than half as much as the eurostar, it takes twice as long. ah well, off to bed!
