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Written on: Wednesday March 22nd, 2006
A journal entry from: Italia!
I haven't been feeling great but I figure it's because we have been traveling for almost a month and we are tired!!! and all we eat is cheese and crackers! I decide to suck it up and we head to Naples. Let me tell you the trip is long (for some reason).
We finally get to Pompeii at 11 a.m. and apparently there is a strike occuring and they will not open to the public until 2... or until they get a raise! dammit. There is literally not a thing to do here. We walked around forever and found a little girl walking around the tourists asking/hugging/cuddling for money. So strange. Some Italian boys tried to flirt with us even though they didn't speak english... hmm. Finally Pompeii opened and we were allowed in. It was amazing but i was starting to feel really sick. we walked around and I doubled over in pain. Eventually i started throwing up in the ruins... fun. I'm surprised we didn't get kicked out!
I was soooooo sick and here was the rest of that day: Bus to neighboring town, train to bigger neighboring town, train back to Rome (which took 1 thousand hours), another bus to the airport an hour and a half outside of Rome... I officially was sick on 3 of the four modes of transport. We got to the airport and we had decided when planning the trip that because our flight was at 6 am we could sleep at the airport! perfect! Ashley spent the night on the airport floor and i spent the night cuddling with the toilet. At 5 am we had to go check in for the flight so i pried myself off the floor to do so. I waited in the never-ending line to check in and when we got to be third from the front my eyes started to get blurry. I had some crazy tunnel vision and I fainted on top of some Italian people. I was out cold. Then I was awake. Then I said "I don't speak Italian... I have to get on this flight back to London so I don't die!!!" so they agreed to let me on the worst flight of my life and I was sick the whole way. Once back in London we had to take another flight back to Scotland and then a train from the airport home... I was travelling for 15 hours straight and was sicker than I have ever been in my life.
We got some cool pictures though! (before I got too sick...)
From avril on Mar 20th, 2007
yay! you finally put your pictures up :) they are great!