Heat.

That is the prevailing theme of Europe thus far: being hot as all get out.  Ugh, gross.  Rome is a new level of constantly sweaty.  Air conditioner in this hostel, also broken.

 

Arrived at my hostel to find Amy form my Madrid hostel.  I took a shower and out we went to the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon, then dinner.

 

Today we got up way early. Went to the Colloseum when there was almost no one there.  Didn't think it was possible in Rome.  We did the Forum and the Palatine Hill, too.  Then we went to the Jewish Quarter had breakfast at noon and walked back past the Circus Maximus, which I didn't realize is completely gone except the shape.  Boring. 

 

Been vegging in this awful heat and freaking out about travel.  Not really.  Being mildly aggitated.  While waiting for Tia's dad to say yay or nay on her traveling with me, the flight to Athens from Milan went from 46 Euro to 80 Euro to now 136 Euro.  Hell naw!  Also, no hostels in Bologna, just expensive hotels and shit too far and frankly, not interested enough.  Same with Verona.  So I'm cutting Italy short after Pisa and Lucca.  On Monday the 19th I will fly from Milan to Budapest.  I am getting in at 10 pm and planning on doing 4 nights and five days with a night train to Bucharest, hopefully.  Bucharest for three days and a night train to Istanbul and probably five or six days in Istanbul.  Shit is dirt cheap after Spain and Italy.  4 nights of hostels in Budapest, should I use them, is roughly 43 US dollars.  4 nights in Pisa would be 116 US dollars.  Yeah.  Then I'll do Greece before going off to the Fringe.  If this ticket ever goes through.  My session timed out and when I tried to redo it it said I had booked it.  So waiting for an eTicket.