The SNCF site is wonky and though they let me book the night train last night the woman at the train station claimed there were no seats (Rome seems even less English-friendly than Paris, goodness). There is a 00:25-05:06 one to Culmont-Chalindrey that I could try. Hopefully no one else is dumb enough to take such a shitty train. But Cinque Terra-Venice is already going to be a crazy night, so I might not want to torture myself some more.

Or I could skip Reims, sleep in Avignon for a night, and go straight to Bayeux. I've seen lots of churches here already, and Reims could be seen in the future with Chartes. The extra rest would be good.

I guess it depends on whether the ticket is available.


It rained last night and is now too, so the weather in Rome's almost tolerable. Wow.

Due to my delaying due to wanting to save on transaction costs by booking both my night trains (Riomaggiore [Cinque Terra]-Venice; Avignon-Reims) at the same time, and waiting till Andrew was here so everything is confirmed, it seems both night trains are fully booked, so we'll have to change our plans for the first and I'll need to change mine for the 2nd. Moral of the story: book early, especially at high season.

Actually the SNCF website just let me book the Avignon-Reims night train, so there might be a miscommunication. I hope they still let me queue up. If not there's always 6:30am tomorrow.

Oh my feet. My poor feet.

I think I'm suffering from a church overload. I think I'll just go for St Peter's to wrap it up. Then again, after a Roman overload a church might be nice.

No of gelati today: 1. I got ripped off and did't feel like another.

Slices are not a good way to measure pizza consumption since they differ in size. Hell, some places sell them by weight, with prices per 100g portion.

My only major regret about today is that I didn't manage to see the paintings at the Capitoline Museum. I found a locked door in front of me at 7:35; closed at 8pm my foot.

Ah well, I've seen many paintings and will see many more.

Number of gelati today: 2 (Visiting Rome in July makes you realise why the Italians invented gelato)
Number of pizza slices today: 4

Current location: Rome

It's damn hot, but what the hell, I've spent 22 years in Singapore and 4 months on the Island of Doom.

Then again I arrived at 5+. Noon'll be a whole new ballgame.

My hostel gets me 15 mins a day free at this Internet cafe nearby. Heh heh. Much cheaper than clubbing too, even if I exceed the free time.

Current location: Bruges

3 World Heritage sites in a day. This must be a new record!

Note to self: never again forget that "rode pepers" means not "red peppers" (rode papriken) but "red chilis".

Damn French keyboards (especially with faded keys). And this computer sucks (IE was screwed so I got FF°, another doesn´t work and a third was running out of disk space; 2nd and 3rd also had mismatched keyboards/keyboard settings - no wonder this place is so cheap.