Planes, Trains and Couchsurfing

At 12:30 today, we leave for France. And then Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Italy, and then back to Spain. Kind of makes me tired just thinking about it. And really excited, mind you. 15 days on a train, sleeping on random people's couches (or a kitchen floor, in one case) and generally having one adventure after another. It certainly has been one so far...

Yesterday we got lost. Really, really lost. Note: they do not put street signs on the streetlights like they do in America. They are on the sides of buildings, and are not always there. Makes navigation a bit difficult. Other side-note: there are no water fountains. If you want free water, you better be okay with tap water from the public bathrooms that are extremely hard to find because the signs are smaller than the palm of your hand.

We had our first Spanish breakfast this morning. I have no idea what I ended up ordering, but I don't think it was what I thought I was ordering... We had to leave our couchsurfer's apartment at 5:30 this morning because he had to catch a plane, so we sat at the train station for 3 hours. Fun. Then we got Spanish coffee (yum!) freshly squeezed orange juice, and a piece of toast with some weird meat on it. I gave my meat to Graham and just ate the toast.

The lisp is significantly more difficult to understand than I expected. Hopefully I will not always find it so. :)

Something I have learned about myself already? I am capable of falling asleep anywhere when I am this tired. Yesterday alone we spent a few hours sleeping on a bench in the park (simply because we had nowhere else to be) and then still fell asleep at 8 pm. Yikes.

We have become great friends with benches. Partly because a lot of traveling is simply waiting. Partly because we are technically homeless and have nowhere to kill time anyway. But mainly because Graham is really, really good at complaining and if I can find a bench nearby it is a really quick way to shut him up :)

So, this will probably be the last time you'll hear from me for a bit. I'll see if I can find a computer somewhere along the way, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time. So, if not beforehand, I'll talk to you in two weeks!