Location: Florence, Italy

S: Today was the first day we can say we did pretty much nothing at all. We packed up our stuff and headed over to our new hostel here in Florence, that hopefully won’t kick us out of our beds in the morning! Along the way we stopped and had some sandwiches and cappuccinos, and wrote out yesterday’s blog post.

We made it to our new hostel, which is a hodge-podge mix of furniture and beds everywhere and an owner who seems permanently stoned. The beds are wrapped in plastic garbage bags and the bathroom lights don’t work but I think we’ll be much happier here than the other place. I swear that’s not sarcasm.

We fell into bed, intending on relaxing for a few minutes but ended up waking up 4 hours later after a rain storm had blown over Florence. Sorry not sorry.

M: Sometimes your body takes over the reigns and says “No! Stop what you’re doing! Now we rest!” And that is exactly what happened here. Our bodies had had enough of four-hour sleep nights and these darn coughs. I do feel a lot better today though. The combination of an afternoon-long nap and some Italian coughing pills may be doing the trick. I was skeptical of the cough pills because the package highlighted the nose area but the pharmacist heard me coughing and handed me the package. I struggled through the language barrier trying to confirm that these are for a “tosse”, she insisted and I bought them. I’m happy to report that they’re doing the trick.

We did some laundry and grabbed cheap kebabs for dinner and now we’re ready for bed again…

S&M