Returns

Ok everyone. I'm back!! Yay! It's crazy how much I enjoy being back here in London. It's not that I didn't enjoy myself in Italy (except one incident, more on that in a second), it's just that it's nice having a place where you know where most everything is and have a routine. I had zero routine while we were traveling. Anyway, as some of you may know, some not, I had my wallet stolen on a train from Cinque Terre to Rome. We took an overnight train and there were a tone of shady characters around and I had thought that I should stay awake but I was so tired, I couldn't (my fault). When I woke up my wallet was gone from where I had stashed it in my backpack (my fault, again). Luckily though, not one other thing was stolen. I had the card reported stolen and nothing was taken out of my account (yet) and my passport was still there and my all my other stuff, so in the long run, I got off WAYYYYYYYY easy. I just thought I would tell everyone this happened before I rehash everything else that happened over the 9 days I was gone.

Throughout today and this coming week I will get up posts about each day of the trip. They are pretty time consuming to do (write it, upload pictures, proofread, etc.) so it might be a few days before they are all up. They will be all up eventually though.

For those people who love pictures, I took about 600+ pictures from the trip which I think I will try to put some of them on facebook or flickr. I will still put my favorite ones on each post but there are so many pictures that I feel kind of dumb just having like 7 or 8 per day when there were some days (like at Cinque Terre) where I took 100 pictures. I'll keep you all updates on this.

I did update my list of books I've read here with the ones I read over the trip. We had quite a bit of down time at night sitting in hotels or hostels and riding trains during the day so I did a bunch of reading. I will do a post about those books when I am done.

Anyway, I am back safe and sound. I hope everyone had a good week and if anything exciting happened with anyone else, let me know.