Details

I think I'll keep today short. Sure we saw the Vatican and all its glory. Sure ERG paid 50 for fixing my glasses.

Seriously. All you need to know is that the Vatican is literally packed full of tourists like sardines in a can. The Sistine Chapel is really not as exciting when there's so many tourists that you can't even get a chance to really appreciate the art.

But today, I want to talk about the details. It is often the details that make an experience what it is. To be honest, if it wasn't for the details, we'd all just stay home and Wikipedia everything we'd wanted to see. Most of the time, the internet has better fidelity anyways.

For example, as excited as I was to see Laocoon today, I couldn't even get within 10 feet of the thing because there were so many people.

Since I have no organized thought process, I'll just list them.

1. All the doors in Italy (except the one in the Vatican) open inwards. No exceptions.
2. You can get almost anything via small family owned stores. The supermarkets here are, for the most part, more expensive.
3. Almost all the rooms have windows. For example, there's a wall window in my room. There's even an window right by the shower hose. Brilliant.
4. Plastic bags costs .05 euros each.
5. The secret to Europeans being skinny is that they walk everywhere.
6. There are really no places to sit down at all.
7. There are no public bathrooms. None.
8. There are no garbage cans.
9. The girls are either drop dead gorgeous or not very attractive.
10. The washing machine literally takes 2 hours to wash 5 shirts and 5 pairs of underwear.
11. European gas stoves are incredibly weak. Either that or I don't know how to work them.

That's all I can think about for the moment.