Sun and Lemons

Ok, it's been awhile and it's time for a recap.

Thursday was a weird night for me. Had a bit too much to drink and ended up being taken care of by 14 mothers (my classmates. Thanks guys!). This of course made it a bit difficult to get up a 4am in the morning in order to board our bus for Sorento / Capri. But thanks to gravity I was able to quite literally hurl myself out of bed and down the stairs of the castle. Our bus ended up being not only an hour and half late but also appeared to be the smallest vehicle carrying the name "bus" that I've ever seen. Clown cars have more room than we did.

But we arrived more or less intact and managed to stumble around Pompeii without too much difficulty. Though I do think we set a new record for water consumption. It was BLOODY hot!
After that we were carted off to a lovely hotel with... gasp!... a bath! Oooo loveliness. Capri was beautiful, if a bit too touristy. Still neat though to see all the wealthy Italian homes. Sorento at first seemed to be a sleepy little town. That was until Brazil played France and the whole city become packed with people. However my classmates and I were well practiced in the arts of cramped spaces we handled the situation marvellously. Sorento at night was so much fun!

The Amalfi coast is a rocky craggy plethora of beautiful seaside villages. Similar to the Cinque Terre but much more rugged and tropical. They also have this "minor" obsession with lemons. Lemons, lemons, lemons. Lemon liqueur. Lemon candies. Lemon soap. Lemon candles. Lemon printed fabrics. And just plain lemons. A bit overpowering at times, but still neat to see citrus stuff everywhere.

This week has been like a flashback to first year uni. Studying and studying and studying. Dang! Who'd have thought that I'd actually have to work while at school!

The next couple weeks will probably be a bit slower in terms of updates. And I'm still trying to work out the photos thing. (May have to send them home on CD and get someone to crop and upload for me). I'm headed out to Venice on Saturday. And after Venice is Florence. After Venice is Sienna (sans Palio :( ). After Sienna is Rome. And after that I'm not quite sure. I've got it scribbled in as "Croatia" in my mental timetable. But wheter that means I head to Split first or Dubrovnik I don't know. But either way things could be a little less frequent on the ol blog.

Dad told me about this amazing week long music festival in Obudai (or something like that) just outside of Budapest in Hungary. Soo many of my favourite bands are playing, though unfortunately none of them are playing on the same day. Philistines! Still, even if I can make it to Radiohead on August 12th I'll be happy as a pig in mud. Stay tuned for how it turns out!