Catching Up

So we left off with us about to go to a farm in Tuscany before going on to Sardinia, with ambitious plans to continue on to Sicily and Tunisia before finally working back to Greece. Well, the farm in Tuscany was great but we only stayed there a week, deciding in the end that if we had to wait to go to Sardinia, we might as well wait with our good friends at La Rocchetta. So we spent a happy week with Michelle, Claudio and Dani, where Medora's friend Erin spontaneously joined us.

On April 11th we took a train to Livorno, an old port town where we would catch the ferry to Sardinia in the morning. We wandered around asking at hotels but couldn't find a room anywhere. Eventually we settled in at a little bar outfitted like an old pirate ship where we wrote collaborative poems and made friends with the owners. They assured us that Livorno was a safe place at night, so we stayed at the pirate bar until closing and then walked over to the local fisherman's cafe, which was just opening for the early risers.

At dawn we met our friends and took the ferry to Sardinia, where we stayed for ten days. The proposed trip to Sicily and Tunisia looked too expensive so we opted to spend a few days in Rome before catching a flight to Athens. We stayed there a few days, and then took a ferry to the island of Paros, where we are now. So that's the general outline of of the last month and a half, and the following entries will go into more detail.

Check out our new pictures! They cover the time of the big lunch at La Rocchetta with Scott and his group, our travels with them to Florence and Venice, our time at the farm in Tuscany, Erin's arrival at La Rocchetta, and our trip to Sardinia.

Of course, right when we arrive in Greece Medora's camera stops working. Hopefully we will have pictures of Greece soon though.