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So here is an update. We are currently in Rome…Wait, What? I know right? I know it has been a long while since anyone has heard word and we apologize for that but we have literally not had access to solid internet till just recently. First off traveling by train is very exhausting, even if you are sleeping most of the time. Your body seems to shut down completely so that it has no desire to wake up and carry obnoxious luggage, riddle me that. To give you a starting place we left London via train to Dover…pretty uneventful. From Dover we took a ferry to Calais, France which was pretty neat. In my mind when we decided to take a ferry I saw a bunch of people standing huddled together on the deck of some cargo ship. Instead we were taken by a square boat that acted as a mini cruise ship equipped with everything you could need from arcades to full bar, restaurant, and gift shop. Landing in Calais after a fun ride we found out with much detestation that it was some French bank holiday…we do not know what for nor do we honestly really care because the train station was closed and every hotel and accommodation was booked. We hung out in the train station as long as we could till they kicked us out into the streets at midnight till they reopened at four. Huddled up in a cold corner outside of a restaurant we both gained some introspect into the livelihood of the homeless. Tired, groggy and sore we started to make our way to Venice, mind you we are at the top of France at this point. The ticket lady for some reason could only book us as far as Paris so that was our next flyby stop. Unfortunately this flyby turned into a 12 hour layover that we toted our luggage around hunting WiFi through the streets of Paris only to find out that we could have paid a few Euros to store our luggage for the day…which would have been totally worth it. From Paris we shot straight south to a place called Nice pronounced Neese which is on the very bottom of France. From there we went to Ventimiglia then on to Venice. With our trains being late and difficult we arrived in Venice about a quarter to midnight. After not finding our pre booked hotel we landed ourselves in essentially a hostel called Hotel Adua. Tired and cranky we went to sleep. Between exploring Venice and fighting with the people that “managed” our hotel we had a good time in Venice. Sure our door handle to our room was falling off and the WiFi only worked between seven in the morning and noon and we could only connect to it from a room that I could not keep power to my laptop going in we found out begrudgingly that with our Eurorail pass we would run out of days if we went to the wedding and not be able to get back up to Paris. So unfortunately we had to cut the wedding out of the schedule but our love and best wishes go out to them and the tequila is on me. Walking canals and seeing the sights we eventually left for Rome which is where we are now. And since I have already drawn your eyes for so long I’ll leave you here for the moment and update you tomorrow on how Rome was. We are well and happy…tired…but happy!

Word to our mothers

The Ox and Viper