...clean clothes and my own cozy bed

the glamorous:

• Salzburg.
• the waves crashing in Cinque Terre
• wandering through the tulip gardens in Holland
• sitting on a bridge on a warm night in Florence, listening to a street performer
• sticking my feet in the Mediterranean
• the sea of umbrellas in the streets of Venice
• eating cheese, fruit, and bread while sitting on the beach in Nice
• eating cheese, fruit, and bread with the aussies while sitting underneath the lit up Eiffel Tower
• gelato
• banana + nutella crepes
• getting into the Academia for free and walking straight up to Michaelangelo's "David" (no line)
• walking out of the metro in Rome and the first thing you see is the colloseum
• making a wich and tossing a coin into the Trivi Fountain
• a rainbow behind the Spanish Steps
• the Sixtine Chapel
• really, Rome in general
• hiking through the alps
• listening to the Vienna Boys Choir at mass

not so glamorous:

• Heathrow airport
• bedbugs in Paris
• overnight trains
• train bathrooms
• [not] sleeping in the train station in La Spieza with all the homeless and their cardboard boxes (one kept farting in his sleep)
• RAW salmon sandwich
• our hostel smelling like doritos-caused by our roommates bra and underwear sitting on the vent
• not knowing if we're going to have a place to sleep our last night in Paris
• paying for bathrooms and water
• tired and sweaty searching for Beethoven's grave in a MASSIVE cemetary
• went to the bathroom in that cemetary, looked in a mirror, and saw a spider on top of my head
• living out of a backpack for over 2 1/2 weeks
• homesickness

i'd do it again in a heartbeat

-pictures coming soon-

peace+love