Across Europe Fall 04

We spent the last two nights in Perguia in the Italian province of Umbria.
It was a nice town, not small but not big. We basically relaxed and wandered
around, it was cold though. And they only had single sex dorms so we had to
sleep in different rooms. Which was kind of tough becuase we share
toothpaste and shampoo and seth has no watch or alarm, but we managed.

Now we are in Florence and it is a lot warmer which is nice and we have our
own room which is also nice. We walked around this afternoon and spent a
bunch of time at the train station trying to figure out how we are going to
get to and around spain. Barcelona and madrid are pretty much far from
everything, so we wanted to take several night trains to minimize wasted
time on the train, but it seems that those 1)book up fast 2) are really
expensive 3) can only be booked in spain. So we had to replan a little. we
were going to go pretty much straight to barcelona from here, but it is a
14hour train ride and the night train beds are all booked. so now we are
going to stop along the way a few nights, sort of break up the journey. then
we are still deciding if we are going to pay the extra money for a night
train from barcelona to madrid (7hours if we take the day train) and madrid
to paris (12 hours). it is all very complicated.

tommorrow we have reservations for the accadamia (where michelangelo's david
is) and the uffizi art musuems, so we dont have to wait in huge lines like
we did at the vatican.

Meg