day 27, on the train to rome

At the moment I’m sat in a compartment with ellie and pat rolling through the lovely Italian countryside on another cracker of a day having had a super night yday. We went down to get bikes and was told that the hostel are cooking a dinner tonight and did we want to join them. We sat outside drinking wine (it’s growing on me) chatting to different people while more and more people joined us. We then assembled 3 tables with candles and proceeded to eat a lovely meal spaghetti in a sauce with seafood which was gorgeous and a tomato pasta dish, which was also rather special. The atmosphere was awesome, there was 26 of us in total, from all over the place, Swedish, Mexican, american, german, Canadian, aussies, Londoners, Italians, Taiwanese, was immense. After clearing the meal and tables away we sat chatting the night away and hit the hay. Emmanuel from the hostel drove us to the  train station in his punto, reminded me of cornwall, tiny car with shitloads of luggage. Have booked rome for 3 nights, need to do some washing as got no clean clothes, so will do that when arrive and get settled, then hit rome centre tomorrow, as around 40 mins from city centre. Realised I have lost a t shirt the other day, ah well, more pissed off that I lost me book today, left it at the hostel, was getting into brave new world, starting to make a dent on it and understand it, will have to look out for it and read it sometime, plus I don’t have anything to read at the moment. It was also good to speak to Jacob yday night, this Canadian dude who’d been to Ukraine, Poland, croatia and around there, so he gave me some tips and advice for travelling around, could easily spend a year travelling around Europe funds permitting, though it shouldn’t go anywhere so can always come back. Getting on really well with ellie and pat, and haven’t got bored of smiling yet, just sat  in the train with me headphones in listening to some tunes staring out the window, great stuff.