Thank you for not being perky

I managed to avoid jetlag in Italy. I feel into bed that first night and slept like the dead for like 11 hours and then was fine except for the occasional crappy night sleep due to rock hard hotel beds. Now, I am up at 4:30 wondering how not to wake up the whole house. It’s hard to be the only one awake in a big open loft with no doors. Fortunately I can tell that my cat was meowy enough to have already woken up Vim.

After Sha and I got off the plane in Rome we took the train to the Termini station and since it was raining we just got in a cab. A cab whose driver had no idea where the hotel was and had to ask the other drivers and then got us there pretty quickly after having driven up on the sidewalk and run over a few pigeons. I hadn’t really managed enough sleep on the plane and I was so tired the ground was heaving around and I was ont he verge of hallucinating. Our Hostel manager was super nice and talking to us and drawing us a map and giving us directiosn and all I could think was that I was about to pass out.

We stayed at the Hotel Lodi, which I recommend as being super friendly, clean and having the bidet right smack dab in the middle of the shower. It was rather far out of the way and was off most of the Rome maps so beware and make sure you keep the business card with the map on it with you so that late at night after getting off the metro you wont be totally lost. They served morning croissant and cappuccino and had two computers with internet in the breakfast room which was very handy and I would totally recommend this hotel to other travelers. It had hostel shared rooms and also private rooms with private baths.

After we left Rome so I said goodbye to any sort of useful internet connection. I did do some analog blogging on my journal but I found that it just did not answer and that it ended up being more of a list of things seen and done.

After 2 days of death march touristy shit in Rome I was so very ready to plump down at our villa in the middle of nowhere to drink cheap wine and read and play games. I’m always a bit torn between touristy death marches and casual hanging about in a new alien environment. Much of it depends on what your companions want to do and whether or not you can split up. And in this case all of the above was fine. I had traveling companions who wanted to do both things AND didn’t care what I was doing either.

One thing I really liked about this trip was having a home base and not having to pack up and move to a new hotel room every few days. It really helped to make me feel more relaxed.

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