I didn't plan to blog about Europe when in Europe but because I have some spare time now, I guess I will.

We have a bit over a week left of the trip and I'm feeling both happy and sad about it.

Happy because I get to go back home and see everyone again. Obviously there are people that I miss a lot and it's been hard these past few weeks without seeing them but we still keep in touch. Always :) Sad because I don't want to leave. It's funny because the first two weeks of the trip it was hard on me because I started to miss everyone. Legit I was feeling a bit sad for a while and I would want to spend time doing things by myself or just staying at home.

I think the hardest part for me was trying to adjust to no routine because I am a routine person and I have like specific things to do at certain times of the day and being in Europe, it was impossible to have that. I would normally sleep and wake up at a certain time and fill up the whole day doing things but that wasn't the case here at all and it took me a while to accept and adjust to that sort of routine. The new 'routine' consisted of waking up at like 10-11am and leaving the house at 12-1pm to have our first meal. Then staying out to do whatever and coming back home to nap around 4-6pm and out to have dinner at 9-10pm which I would normally find very late to have dinner haha But then I realised if we went out everyday at 1pm to have our first meal, we literally wouldn't feel hungry until dinner time, which meant 2 meals a day which I was fine with. No one was really hungry in the early hours of the morning anyway.

Also I'm not a very 'night life' person so when it came to going out at night, I was being like nah I'm going to stay in. And in those kind of situations I always think, if I was back in Sydney and I was presented the opportunity to go out clubbing or drinking in the city I would go because I wouldn't want to stay at home and I would want to have fun.. so why wouldn't I want to do that here? My parents aren't here, I can make my way home because home is so much closer to the city centre. I should make the most of the night life right before I have to start worrying about how to get home from the city or who's going to pick me up sort of thing in Sydney.

I, 80% don't remember anything that has happened in the previous cities/ countries that I have gone to so far haha If I re-read my diary and look at my photos again, obviously it'll spark up some memories but if you were to ask me how was my trip right now, I would say omg so good and that would be it. I couldn't tell you individually how each city was because everything was such a blur. Literally, what has happened these past 5 weeks...

But a few things about some cities that I have enjoyed so far"

Rome
I think, by far, surprised me. I knew I was going to like it because of culture and history, which are my two favourite things, but I didn't know I was going to like it a lot... a lot more than Athens. If you didn't know already, I love carbs and Italian food has a lot of carbs. Like a lot haha Pizza, pasta, lasagna, gnocchi, risotto, bread omg. which means I love Italian food. I really do haha Which made my experience in Rome or Italy in general, really good. I also had a lot of gelato and found my love for hazelnut flavour. Ever since, I've only been getting hazelnut. Yum yum My most memorable experience in Rome was when I went roaming by myself (sounds lonely I know but I enjoy doing things by myself a lot) around the Colosseum and I sat there for about 30-45 minutes catching the sun setting infront of it and watching people smiling and taking photos with it. It was just a lovely feeling. I don't know about you guys but when I travel, I like to absorb everything even if it means sitting in one spot for a long period of time. So sitting around the Colosseum and watching people taking selfies or spending time with their families, was a happy site. It was nice to see what one monument could make a person feel.

Naples
Surprised me. I knew I would love Pompeii. I would so close to actually tearing up because I waited a long time to be there. Everything felt like fiction before because it was all textbooks, internet and journal articles. 2D basically and on paper but when you're actually there on the site, you can't believe it. You can't believe the immensity of the site (it was 66 hectares btw) and how these ruins dated to 79AD. That's a really long time ago guys and people lived back then. I touched ruins that were built by people who lived 1900 years ago. Positano was lit. The 2.5hour travel was totally worth the view and beach. So so beautiful. The photos taken by the instag bloggers may have slightly saturated the colours of the buildings haha but it's exactly what it looks like. If not, even more nice. Bloody hot sand though.

Athens
I was completely biased to this city because I studied it and I knew a bit about it geographically. I fell in love with it. I'll tell you a lil secret. In our taxi ride from Athens airport to our airbnb, we passed the city and saw the acropolis and other sites, and I teared up. I honestly couldn't believe it. I felt so emotional having studied this beautiful city for so so long, reading and becoming so interested in its city, and then finally arriving made it perfect. I still can't believe it to this day. On the other hand, Greek food is so good. I had no idea haha It was a refreshing change from the density of Italian food since it was carb loaded, so we had our salads and yoghurt (tzatziki). Oh, Greek drivers are safe drivers haha They drive properly unlike the Italians!!!!

Santorini
Words can't describeeeee how beautiful this place. Blue and white everywhere. Also a lot of Aussies haha Cruise was sooo much fun. ATV was even more fun!!!! It was so much fun driving it around the island and along the coast. Had my daily dose of gelato too goddamn. I'm going to get fat from gelato haha Oh and Greek food is cheap too.

I'm going to end this abruptly and get ready to go drinking/ clubbing with bobs and jess. You can see why Santorini was such a short post. I could say more about it but ceebs you know haha 

This is my order of fav cities/ countries to least
Oh incase you were wondering, I'm in Budapest right now but I won't add it to the list yet. Haven't seen it much to know where it falls on the list :)

Santorini
Rome
Naples & Ibiza (I can't split them apart)
Athens
Barcelona
Madrid
London
Milan
Amsterdam
Paris

Sorry Paris

:)



Saturday, July 23, 2016 7:07 AM