road tripping

through europe was a really good decision. been on the road for exactly two weeks, starting in france and travelling down through italy and heading to croatia today. we ended up staying in seignosse at darina’s place for a lot longer than expected, but it was really a lot of fun. a few amazing beach days that resulted in really funny burn lines. i could barely walk for two days because i burnt the backs of my legs so badly. i now have a stripe up one leg and random finger print lines up my right side…i look retarded. this is why i never tan, pasty just suits me better.

after darina’s be started the long drive to italy, stopping in the small town of avignon to break up the drive. we went to cinque terre, a collection of 5 tiny fishing villages on the coast of italy and then continued on to rainy florence. way too many tourists in that place, but i got to see the duomo, david and go to the uffizi which was really cool. we spent a few days in tuscany (my new favorite place) doing wine tastings and cruising through siena. it’s one of the most beauitful and relaxing places i have ever been, plus the wine is awesome. we bought a few bottles at one of the vineyards we stopped at and almost ended up dropping 200 euros to stay the night there. it probably would have been worth it, but oh well.

we’re now in rome, but are super over the tourist thing so we’re catching the ferry from bari tonight to croatia. at least i got to see the colloseum, roman forum, trevi fountain and an italian man beat up his wife with a metal belt buckle in the middle of the day. i had enough of rome once i saw that. it was the most brutal and awful thing i’ve ever witnessed and i think the worst part was that grown italian men just stood there and watched it like it was normal. we were all loaded into the van to go back to our campsite when it happened and one of the guys got out pretty quickly when he realized no one was stopping him, but it was too late. the guy ran off and the woman ran to us crying and screaming, bleeding from her head. ben, the guy from our campsite, took off his shirt to help stop the bleeding and still not a single person who could speak her language, take her to the hospital or call for help did. not even our driver would help her, he just yelled at her to get out of the van. i can’t ever imagine that happening in canada,that someone could even get away with doing that in a public place without numerous people trying to stop the man and help the woman. it was really sad and i hope that if it was her husband she leaves him because  a man like that doesn’t even deserve the love of his own mother.

sorry for the downer there, it’s just something i haven’t been able to stop thinking about. we’re going to start the drive to bari now. i’ll update sometime…maybe.

talk soon,

s.

man in the mirror-micheal jackson
i lost my phone in ny so we have no music but three cds that we bought, mj’s been getting us through some long ass drives.