17th June 2011 Rome, Italy

i go through contrasting stages of craving familar company and being ecstatically happy about being on my own. often enough i long to be able to share what i am experiencing with someone who is doing the same.

but there is power in being alone this way. there is strength to gain from it. this sort of lonliness is pngent but in a way different from what i have felt before.this sense of freedom feel painful, sweet and fresh.

i miss everyone and i miss no one. i feel constantly learning from myself, always challeneged. and the feeling of waking up in the morning with so much to do, but no obligation to do a damn thing, that is overpowering and makes me mindlessly happy.

vatican ceilings

now sitting the the vatican gardens under the bright dry roman sun my feet ache. ive been up and on them from 11am, walking to breakfast on Via Settembre XX and onwards to the Vatican.

i got to see the fantastic school of athens. i have always wanted to see it and had no idea it was housed here, always believing it to be housed at the Lourve. the sistine chapel too, again i stood, head craning up and mouth open like a blowfish.

evenings down quattro fontana

im not quite hungry yet, but i look forward to finding 'allbridge' or 'oldbrige' the gelato place, highly recoommended by too many roommates.

after a 30 min wait in the sun, i feast on the best freshly made coconut, mint and black cherry gelato there is in italy. FTW!

im so looking forward to being in venice.
after a month in lazy greece, city life feels so noisy and so up close and personal.

saint peters basillica next and pont d'angelo.

pont d'angelo (bridge of angels)