Time to Go
Thursday, May 5th, 2011I am leaving today. Of course it is another beautiful day here. I would be really sad, but I am already planning to come back next year and have already worked out with the landlord here, a one month stay. I am just not sure if it will be in the spring or in the fall, just yet.
What an amazing experience this has been. I was so lucky to have such beautiful sunny days. I guess it kind of sucked to get sick, because I did not do many of the things I thought I would do. I am also kind of a lazy person, so in fact I may have never done those things anyway. But, I will be back and then I can once again be lazy and think about doing them, and maybe even do them.
Until then though, I will carry the memories of my April in Paris with me forever. The sun setting over my perch at the Bastille canal, watching Spanish football with a bunch of Barcelona fans, eating pate and drinking wine while watching the tourists go by on the Seine. Everything.
Tonight I will take the night train to Venice, in a second class compartment with six couchettes. I have taken a night train before, from Venice to Budapest, but in a private cabin. (I am trying to remember now, if we booked it that way, or if it just happened that way.) Anyway, I hope it will be an adventure, with cool people and a minimum of smells. And when I wake up, I will be in Italy. I am saying goodbye to one city I love, but tomorrow I will say hello to another one, one with lots of familiar faces. Life is good.
Thanks for following along on my adventures with me. A Bientot!
