If you were starting to wonder....

...where that sucking sound was coming from, it turns out it's from my fingertips.
holy blog suck batman

I'm just saying, so you don't have to.

Travel stories, right.
well. this is really the best I can do,
Eurotrip Cliffsnotes:

We started in Munich,
Oktoberfest is just like the CNE only with big beer halls and people dressed in dirndls and lederhosen. We went at about Noon, drank a stein (1litre) and a bit of beer and I was in bed passed out by 6pm. nuff said?
Munich doesn't have much in the way of awe inspiring monuments, they have the Rathaus-Glockenspiel which would have been mighty impressive in 1908, but in this day and age of in- your- face- holy- shit- did- you -just -see -that technology it's kind of a snoozefest, the building itself looks amazing at night when it's all lit up and magical.

Our Second Day we went to the town of Dachau to the Concentration Camp Memorial Site it was this really miserable grey day, which put you right into the place. The kind of place you could spend hours just sinking into, going through a revolving door of emotions, pathetic efforts to imagine yourself in the bare feet of the prisoners that suffered and died there for over 10 years. It's unreal and unimaginable even standing in the middle of it.


We took the overnight train from Munich to Firenze (Florence)
here's a piece of solid advice, when taking a night train, spend the extra money and get a cabin with bunks so that you can actually sleep on the 9 hour ride, rather than sit up awkwardly and have to listen to strangers use outdoor voices to get to know eachother until the sun comes up.
Arriving in Florence was an absolute highlight of the trip, we got in at 6:30 am and took a taxi through the city as the sun came up. Everything was covered in goldust. After we dropped our bags at the hotel we roamed the streets and watched the city wake up, this is the kind of place that seems to have been unaffected by time, it's weathered and aged, but still maintains the integrity on which it was built, narrow cobblestone streets, markets, churches and the best gelato of all time.
other highlights: The David, Birth of Venus, View from the Piazzale Michelangelo.

We did a day trip to Pisa while we were there, it's worth it, not so much for the tower, or the food but for the combination of history.

I'd go into detail about stuff, but I could never do it justice, I wouldn't know where to start or stop, it would be painfully long-winded and completely amateur.
Here's something you won't see for yourself or read about on wikipedia, on the train ride to Pisa, I fell asleep, as I do on any moving vechicle, that I myself am not driving. I woke up at one point to hear shouting in Italian, it was a sob filled yellethon. I realized that it was a girl on the phone and I could only understand her saying "no" over and over again, sometimes with a comanding tone, and other times as a plea. I turned around to see who was causing this dramatic interlude just as the girl hung up and chucked her phone out of the train window.
It was pretty much all I could talk about for days.

Rome is Rome,
Amazing, jam packed with history and religion.
The first day we stumbled upon the top of the Spanish Steps just in time to see the sunset over Rome
Day 2- Saw the Pope, ya...the POPE...no biggie, he says "what's up, and keep on keeping on"

as you can tell, I'm fading. this was never gonna be an all in one go anyway.
aka: To Be Continued