Due to our petite breakfast that morning, we were bang on time for our coach ride to ROME!! However, things with our driver Alfredo didn't start on the best of terms. After we were all aboard, he discovered suspicious brown footprints down the length of his clean bus. (We think Jack (!!!) had trampled through something in his slippers that morning). Alfredo was in a rage, and stormed through the bus inspecting everyones feet. Upon arrival at Jacks, Jack sheepishly upturned his slippers, however, the long walk to the end of the bus had removed all traces.
Alfredo was mad.
He retrived a bottle of water from his seat and angrilly splashed it over the footprints, hurling the plastic bottle out the back door onto the street, to be run over by a passing taxi. Then, paper towel in hand, scrubbed the remains, muttering furiously in Italian to himself.
Finally we were on the road to Rome.
After a stormy trip, we made it to Pisa for a generous two hour stop. Making it through the gauntlet of hagglers selling genuine Prada bags and Rolex watches we got our first views of the famous tower. Yes, it was leaning. To quote Alfredo "It looks like a banana" due to its wonky corrections over the years. Refusing to pay 8 Euro to climb it, we were then left with an 1:56 to amuse ourselves with the various stalls.
Then, we took a huuuuuge bus ride.
Then, we arrived in Rome. Yeahh.
The hotel we found ourselves accomodated at was situated up several flights of stairs, after passing three nicer hotels on the way up. We opened our doors to our jail cells, dumped our stuff, and then traipsed down the 4 flights of stairs. Again. and headed to dinner next door.
After another delicious Italian meal (honestly rated second of the two Italian meals so far), we headed back to our cells for "bed". 20 minutes worth of ruccus later, a loud bang erupted from the corridor. It was DJ (Wyatt Trash) who had finally lost the plot. Needless to say, everybody headed straight into bed, scared shitless of what could possibly happen next.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment