The quarter life crisis that is the mid-twenties European vacation is always presented in the movies and indeed in most of this journal as beers, clubs, wine, bars, women, crazy stories and last but not least the standard tours and sights that comprise the history of these many countries. I suppose that is why I [...]

If you hadn’t noticed our planning prior to this trip ended with our arrival in Italy and so our destinations and calendar are operating on the fly at this point. While in Naples we made arrangements with Leah to meet up with her once we reached Florence, but Ben and I both being from D.C. [...]

They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I’ll be damned if Ryan and I didn’t walk the majority of it in one. Having sidetracked to Naples we had to book a hostel last minute and I guess that there was room in this one for a reason. It was a shit hole. [...]

To reward our good Samaritan behavior, Shea and Leah offered us a night at their hotel in Naples. Ben and I weren’t planning on going to Naples (especially with the trash situation) but hey, free room, friends, and arguably the best ‘zza in the world. So we pushed our planned arrival in Rome back a [...]