Dateline: Firenze
After leaving Trieste on Tuesday, I went to Bologna. I liked it there, but found neither a hotspot nor an internet cafe, hence the long drought on communication. I figured in Firenze, with all the tourists, I would find an internet spot, and sure enough….
Firenze is crawling with tourists, even in winter, with lingering bits of snow on the ground from the snow I saw here yesterday, passing through. I liked Bologna better – a more lived-in, workaday city but with plenty of medieval charm.
I'm not going to make a long entry here… suffice to say that I like Italy a huge amount, but have been feeling my solitude more accutely, too. This huge internal pressure to "get on with my life" but without a clue what it is I most want to do. Vagabonding around europe is fun, and fulfills certain long-held ambitions, but it's not, al fin y al cabo, much more than a way of killing time while I decide what to do next with my life.