And then I went to Italy

I had gone to bed a little late again and while I was full of good intentions regarding my morning routine, in the end I just didn‘t do it. I packed everything together, left all the dirty dishes for the boy, had to eat bread for breakfast instead of muesli because I didn‘t want to open a new container of yogurt and have it go bad before my return, and then my husband and I set out to catch our first train.

Everything went completely smooth, no delays, nothing. The train was pretty full when we set out from Munich and we were in one of those compartments that seat six people. There were only ever five of us in there at a time and for the first hour or so one of those five people was a toddler that was clearly hungry, tired and a bit overexcited. His father was doing a very good job, though, carrying him around and humoring him, reading and feeding and bouncing. I didn‘t really mind the inevitable crying.

My husband wasn‘t feeling all that well, he had his usual GI distress and felt almost sick. That continued on throughout the day, poor thing.

I finished reading a book and started two more, I ate sandwiches for lunch (and sandwiches for dinner, sob), I knitted for an hour or so and then had to rip it all back because the first sock in that particular pair turned out to have a peculiarly short cuff. Well, here is a picture of my lunch:

We arrived at Verona to gray skies at 5, then had to find the place where we could pick up our keys, walk to our rented apartment, figure out how to unlock the door (not as easy as you‘d think) and then we could finally relax a bit.

We rested for a while and then set off to find a supermarket to get something for dinner. We ended up with pastrami sandwiches. We had a beer each and watched the first episode of „Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat“ again, I ate some crackers and some chocolate, did Duolingo, started writing this post, made a cup of chamomile fennel tea and went to bed.

I actually have no idea what we‘re going to do today but I guess, we‘ll figure it out.