This has been a wild ride of a day. The cultures are blurring together, I don’t know what language I’m supposed to be trying to understand, and the random collection of bills and coins seem more and more confusing, and less and less valuable.
I am writing this from a Starbucks in the middle of a shopping center in Geneva, Switzerland. However, I started the day in Rome, Italy. My traveling mate Corey and I woke up pretty early today to get a good start on this hectic day. We got breakfast at our strange hotel we were staying at. A nice Italian woman made us coffee and we helped ourselves to the assortment of fruit and baked items. It was good, but I do now understand that it’s hard to satisfy a true American appetite. We then walked about 5K back to the Vatican. We had been around the outside of this area yesterday, but due to the weather and the lines to get in we had decided to save it for today. This time the weather was amazing, and since we went so early the lines had disappeared.
I have seen some amazing things in my life, but the scale of this site took me greatly by surprise. The ability for one city, one government to build something of this magnitude and extravagance almost made me feel almost nauseous. It’s something I can barely wrap my mind around, let alone describe, so I will try to do it some justice with the pictures that follow.
After the Vatican we realized that time was running very short to make our flight to Geneva. We hopped on busses, hopped off busses, hopped on our train, and finally made it to our gate in time. Somewhere in there we found 20 minutes to have the best Italian fettechini alfredo of my life at a really cool sit down place.
On to Geneva. There is very little plan for this part of the trip. Any site we see will be amazing, but right now on this rainy night the biggest question on our minds is where we are staying. We went to the Starbucks I’m writing this from to get internet, and I had to ask the cashier what type of money was used here. This is all seeming so strange, but I am very happy to be doing it.
Wondering if this is the Sistine Chapel and if you saw the Pieta?
Wonderful pictures and sincerely hope you continue to be well and enjoying yourselves.