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I realised yesterday that even though ryokophoenix posted these sections of last year's trip a LONG time ago, I forgot to link to them! Well done, me. Hopefully the next part (Dublin!) will be up soon, but in the meantime:

Birmingham (by which I mean Cadbury World) -- in which I have chocolate-induced maniaface

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Edinburgh -- in which the weather is ( Read more... )

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Holy fucking shit it is unbelievably hot. And there are mosquitoes in my room. I have sprayed Mortein everywhere and am waiting for them all to DIE; there is nothing, nothing I detest more than mozzie-whine in my ear as I try to sleep ( Read more... )

We are in: Sydney ( Read more... )

One more full day in Rome and then we fly out! That is...an amazing thought, but also a relief. I have no energy left. I slept for ten hours AND had a siesta this afternoon, and right now I am about ready to stand under a hot shower and then collapse into bed for another ten ( Read more... )

* Australia Day today! Instead of being in Athens where the hostel was giving away meat pies and hosting the Australian High Commission party, we are in Rome where nothing at all exciting is happening in our vicinity. Boo hiss ( Read more... )

This entry was meant to be quite long and descriptive but I've been too busy playing the speed-of-light-flist-skim game and my internet time has almost run out, so briefly: we have finally left Sicily, and we spent an amazing day at the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento (perfect weather, almost no other tourists) and then took an overnight ferry ( Read more... )

Okay, so our train from Naples to Catania was delayed en route by OVER THREE HOURS due to reasons we would know if we understood Italian, and then we got slightly lost on the way to the hostel, but now we are here and I have had some lovely red wine and a lovely Long Island Iced Tea and so am beeeautifully tipsy and Mel is watching MERLIN DUBBED IN ( Read more... )

I really like the hostel we're at in Naples -- tea and coffee round the clock, I pulled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius off the communal bookshelf and am enjoying it thoroughly, the second Kill Bill is playing in the common room -- but this computer's keyboard has the world's most unnerving spacebar. It takes almost no pressure to get a ( Read more... )