San Lorenzo in Lucina

Because I have had too many busy days during my journey, I am having to retrospectively complete a lot of these entries. As such, I am a week behind and using a 6 hour train journey to complete all the ones to date. But it is hard and they do take a lot of time to complete, if you want to do them well. I may have to begin shortening them to ensure that I can do them for each day, but we will see how that goes given how much I seem to be doing on a day to day basis.

Given that I had an incredibly busy few days travelling and wandering with Stef, today was a completely empty day where I did incredibly little. I slept in, laid in bed for a few hours, called the folks, and tried to make my way to a Scottish pub to watch the state of origin. My dad had luckily found the perfect spot to watch it. Although a 20-minute walk, it was guaranteed to play the game, and so I made my way there. I had hoped for a few other Aussies to be there to make some friends, but when I arrived, the place was packed with people from all over Australia, but mostly QLD and NSW, obviously. At first it was far too busy to get a seat but a nice family invited me to sit down with them. They were supporting Queensland, and we were some of the few in that section of the pub. Luckily, it didn't stop us from getting really into the game. Of course, the highlight was Queensland taking the series in a very convincing win and being able to celebrate in a pub across the other side of the world. After this, another nice family invited me to sit down with them for a few drinks. I happily joined them, and we sat and chatted for a few hours. After buying me a few beers - in which they were 6 and 7% - they eventually went on their way, and I was left to wander home. At this point, I was quite drunk and only getting more drunk. It is interesting to walk home from the pub and still stumbled across monuments hundreds of years old, hidden in tiny streets. I'm more used to stumbling through nothing but boring streets of Australia.

Eventually, I did make it home. And although I just laid in bed to recover from the walk, I fell asleep. I woke up at some point later and wandered to find some dinner. By the time I found a nice restaurant and ate, I realised I was near the trevi Fountain. Curious to see it at night, I took the long way home, only to discover it was somehow busier at night. Although I could see why, it looked really nice under the lights. But once again, I didn't stick around for too long before heading home for bed. And that was my whole day, much shorter than previous, but it was mostly a recovery day anyway, one that was very needed.Read more