Europe 2003 - Part 4: Still in Florence

I planned to go to Rome today but the morning was so nice I couldn’t be bothered. Last night I met a lovely Dutch girl called Anna. Since David and company were eating watermelons for dinner, Anna and I felt that we needed a more substantial meal so we made our way down the idiot hostel’s hill for the umpteenth time. We were technically on a date and the dinner and wine was fabulous! A guy near us looked like Sly Stallone and everybody was yelling and shouting, 100% Italian! We named ourselves Mr. and Mrs. Jones for the night and came back to the hostel and did our usual music thing all night.

In the morning I met 2 English girls and we walked up the massive hill to Fiosole. The view was magnificent and we worked really hard in the beating sun to get up there. We had lunch near the monastery and Leonardo da Vinci’s aeroplane model, a fab pasta and so so, and got the bus back down to town. I am staying in the hostel and sleeping in my hammock until the evening. It might well be another wonderful night of music and people and beer, who knows? The truth is that life is beautiful.

[Photo omitted - Caption: Two English ladies that I walked up some hills with near Florence. The town we went to was Fiosole.]