It has been a few countries since I've update. Oops. Although from the looks of it no one reads this anyway so I may not continue updating unless I'm at a hostel with free internet. Unless someone of course would like to comment and let me know they are reading it. Then I shall do my best. Promise.

Here are some quick city updates.

Florence, Italy - I enjoyed this city a lot. It felt like Rome but the streets were all more narrow and had a smaller town atmosphere to them. It made a good city to wander around in. The lines however to get into the museums were madness. I only did one on each day simply beacause they were so long. Uffizi Gallery the one day (which ended up taking me hours to get through inside as well but some of the paintings were lovely) and the Galleria dell Accademia the next day (where I got to meet David - he's bigger than I thought he would be). I wandered up to a hill just outside the city where there were great views (since I didn't want to pay the money to go up the bell tower at the Duomo). I also attended a few masses. I have become obsessed with going into every church I see because they are free if you pretend to attend mass or even be remotely religious, and they are usually so magnificant inside. Went to a scary food market where I could swear I saw brains for sale.

Cinque Terre, Italy - There are 5 villages along the coast that are only accessible by train or foot. I stayed in the second one, Manarola. The scenery here was really great. I took a day and did the hike through all the villages. I took me about 6 hours with some stops to explore places that looked interested. I totally underestimated how out of shape I was though. Ha ha. I met up with an aussie couple and did part of the hike with them. While hiking you alternated between walking through forests, villages, vineyards, and the edge of the cliff with huge waves below. However, as much as I loved my time away from the city it was totally not a place to go if you are travelling on your own. Everyone there is married, or just married, or celebrating an anniversary or whatever the hell, and it was a pain in the ass. The second day though, I met up with a girl I had stayed with in Florence so we bitched about the PDA and everything together. Oh and I spent a day on the beach. Speaking of which I'm really tanned at the moment but I'm afraid it's going to go away as I go further north. I never get tanned too. Woot. My hair has gone lighter and is some strange orangy colour now. Anyway I'm exhausted so I'm ranting about my hair. Moving on.

Venice, Italy - I had heard from a few people that Venice was disappointing but I think they were on crack. I came over with an aussie girl, and it made the city so much better because it's one where you walk around for hours and get lost because all the streets are either unmarked, or you have the option of chosing three different street names. It was really neat to walk out of the train station, expect to see buses, or a metro line or something, and have a canal right in front of you. I loved the lack of cars or stupid mopeds running you down. My first full day in Venice we went to St. Marks Square. Thats the place you always see pictures of people covered in pidgeons. We watched them for a while because honestly why would you pay money to be covered in gross birds. It's a mystery to me. We took a vapparetto ride along the grand canal which the cheapest form of transportation you can get along the water. They make you pay at least 100 euros for a gondala ride! We were satisfied with just taking a pictures of one. We had some dinners out which was nice.

Ok I am currently in the Czech. Republic so there are some holes I will fill in when there is not someone waiting over my shoulder for the computer. Tschus!