day 33, napoli

got up early this morning hoping to sort out my next bit of my trip, preferably to bologna. it was pretty dear to get there plus there doesn't seem to be any hostels in bologna, so had a look to venice and have booked meself a sleeper for tonight, that leaves at 8 tonight and gets in to venice and half 5. booked a hostel for 2 nights in venice which is cool, so once that was done set off with nathan ellie and pat to go see about them leaving to go to sicily tonight. after a wander through some cool side streets and some great visuals, finally found the ticket office, 8th time lucky and they are booked on a 10 hour boat for tonight. all of us were hungry so went to some local shops to buy some food and make a pasta lunch. met some super friendly italians who couldn't understand us so phoned their nephew who spoke about as much english as i did italian, trying to translate 'basel'. after about 10 minutes and 8 different people (only one of them who worked there) and them pointing to every fruit and veg in the shop we arrived there at basillico! we then cooked some amazing pasta, finished it and then realised we forgot the bloody basel! at the moment just chilled out nursing food babies with shrek on in the background trying to work out the best way to spend 6 and a half weeks, doesn't look like i'll be going to the ukraine as it is too big and out the way, i can't believe i've only been to 3 countries so far, feels like loads of them. really looking forward to getting east, going to slovenia after venice. i'm also starting to understand the italians and how they act, it's very different to the uk, and takes alot of getting used to. if i could speak a bit of italian could easily spend more time in italy, though it was nothing to how i imagined it. looking forward to my first sleeper train, despite hearing alot of horror stories think it will be cool.