day 26, lake trasimeno

the four of us went down to the lake restaurant to grab some food, there we met two dutch girls who didn't speak highly of the place though they were still eating there, ordered bruschetta and gnocchi, which wasn't the greatest, actually it was wank. though the view was pretty till we got attacked by bugs and moved inside. spent the rest of the evening chatting and looking at the stars, another clear night, and went to bed. this morning again sunshine and breakfast outside, then me and pat took some bikes to the isola polvese via a ferry. just as we got off the ferry and rode for about a min, pat's tyre blew out, so we walked round the island. it was really small but soooo quiet and pretty, giving lovely views around the lake and all the surrounding villages. we took a dip in some lovely clear water, where pat gave me some tips on how to improve my ridiculously shit swimming, i'm no natural. we then hopped on the ferry back and walked the 5km back to the hostel, on the way it was stupidly hot. had a bit of a nap in the shade as we had lost ellie who had the room key, then back to the room to freshen up and booked 3 nights in rome starting from tomorrow and looking up all the train shit. tonights we are getting some more bikes and riding the 5km to the nearest supermarket, getting some food and bringing it back and cooking something up which will be cracking, bloody hungry as not had anything since breakfast part from shitloadsa water. pat is still keen on seeing if the canoe aint got no holes, so may take that out either tonight or tomorrow morning as train isn't till 10:40. staying somewhere similar to the place we stayed in florence, a campsite with a house tent 20 mins out the city centre which will be cool, lots of things to see and do in rome with a few things in the hostel to fall back on. i'm also keeping an ear to the ground about wimbledon, trying to work out where i'll be on sunday should murray reach the final as dont think i could miss that.