Goodbye Venice, hello Florence.
This is not a vacation.
Far from it. The thought occurred to me after talking to my little sister last night.
Vacations are relaxing and stress free. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying myself but I'm an tired. Yea I know I've reached the halfway point and I still have Mt Olympus to climb.
I think it's Italy that's stressing me out. What with the trains reservations even though I have a rail pass. Ireland didn't require them though I knew the train I wanted to take I knew that if I missed it I could just hop in the next one.
I am tired
Carbs makes one tired. I love bread but I love vegetables and meat as well. Can I find a salad to go?
I'm also dehydrated. Not in the literal sense but I'm not drinking my usual amount of water. Not that's its hard to find.
Why?? Two reasons. First public restroom are not readily available. Second when you do find one here in Italy as well as France. You have to pay to use it. Talk about inconvinent. So right now I'm at my hostel with a liter of water drinking away trying to catch up with what I did not drink earlier.
On to stupidity...,
I no longer have my iphone 4. Someone else has the privilege of having it although it's in lost mode right now. So hopefully they won't be able to use it at all especially since Apple added a new security feature that requires your appleid to reset or restore it. So I guess they can use it for scrape parts. Maybe. I'm not really concerned. I did by myself a big waffle cone of gelato to make myself feel better.
For a second I thought about using old fashion maps bug then I changed my mind and decide to use my "real" phone and egg a international data plan. As long as I put it in airplane mode and turn off all the automatic updates the plan I bought should last me two weeks. I hope.
Oh yeah the stupidity part. I set my phone on a bridge to take a picture. Then walked farther down to get another angle and I kept walking. It took me about a min to realize I never picked my phone back up. Went back and Nope it wasn't there. So yeah that was stupid of me.
I rented another bike today and roamed around the city for a few hours. Took some pics of statues. These lions are gonna be the death of me. Before I'm done I'm gonna dedicate a whole blog to then. Until then.....