I think I'll stop counting the Australians now

Our last day in Paris saw us going to the Hotel de Ville and looking at people ice skating (hoping for them to fall over), and checking out the Bastille, which was good to see on a sunny day. We wanted to go back to the Arc de Triomphe to see the traffic again. It was a massive roundabout with no lanes and seemingly no rules. When we went there before we were just waiting for a crash to happen. Sadly, we were both pretty tired and out of train tickets so we just hung out at the bar at the bottom of the 'Peace and Love' (the hostel we were staying at) until we left for our train.

The train was ridiculously cramped, and the bottom bunks that we had were on a bit of a slant, which made sleeping somewhat difficult. We went to book some tickets to go to Bologna on the 27th but, as luck would have it, there was a train strike from the morning of the 27th to the morning of the 28th, so we had to go with a train to Bologna on that morning.

We eventually made it to the 'Yellow Hostel' in one piece and got settled in. The first day in Rome didn't really amount to much sightseeing, although we did walk over to the Colosseum in the middle of the night after a few beers and a bottle of bubbly. I thought the sparkling was nice, but Dave thought it was way too sweet, and so did Alice, the claustrophobic Aussie that we ran into at the hostel, and desperately wanted to get out of Rome.

Today we might check out the Vatican and maybe go on a walking tour of the city, then tonight is the pub crawl, which should be a lot of fun. Also looking forward to Australia Day tomorrow, as it is crammed with Aussies here.

France overview

Days spent: 4 nights
Aussies met: I stopped counting after about 16
Croissants eaten: 2
Times carded at pub/club: 1