In Rome/Al's a woman

Hello all from a very temperate Rome: im down to just a jersey. Al worries to much, as you can see from the posts and this combined with the fact that he was crying about needing a shower means that he has, in fact, lost his manhood. Right now im waiting for him to come back and thats why this will be a very rambly post. Congratulations on you achievement Helen, that is something to be proud of. All ive got so far is a letter from Knox saying I lost my key, and possibly an offer for honours in Geography but we'll see. So N-Diddy, you gonna come and see me in London on the 18th/19th/20th/21st of January? You can surely make it down for 1 night (and p.s. Lucy's my girlfriend but if you want we can still sex. Same sex relations are alright.) Tonight is going to be a 12h Spumante binge. Cant wait. I thihnk we'll go to an outdoor party somewhere and throw up. Should be rad- like 1970's rad. Or rad-racer rad (depending which one is more rad). Al sure takes a long time. But hes back yay. Post time.

The plan

We will leave Zurich tonight on a night train, get to Rome tommorow morning, sneak into a youth hostel and use their showers for free, put our bags in lockers at the station and then party all night so we don`t need a place to sleep (lucky I brought caffeine pills with me). Then we`ll head down to Naples to couchsurf till hostels in Rome get cheaper.

This morning our host had to go to work at 6am so we left the flat then to and went up Uitliberg again and watched dawn over the Alps. It was amazing. But incredibly cold. I still feel cold and that was many hours ago. Got some good photos of it though, so you guys can enjoy it without having to endure it.

HELP!

We are going to be homeless from tommorow for several days.

We sent 20 emails out for couchsurfing in Rome a week ago and have got no responses.
The hostels are either full or ridiculously expensive for New Years.
This is the same in all nearby areas.

If anyone knows someone living in Rome or nearby (even a dubious `friend of a friend` type linkage), EMAIL US IMMEDIATELY.

It is still too cold to sleep outside and in Rome we would almost certainly get robbed.

Dial .ch for Switzerland

For some reason websites in Switzerland end with .ch. Imnot sure if the Swiss are retarded (Although we have seen a disproportionate number of retards/schizo`s/jamies) or they just cant spell. Surely .sw would have been more appropriate seeing as there are no c`s or h`s in Swityerland. Anyway that aside our fortunes in Zürich have improved dramitically as we do have a place to stay and we even went up this big hill today and got a splendid view of Zürich, the lake, the Alps and the Swiss countryside. It was almsot as good as looking at Lucy. Tomorrow I think we go to Rome but im not sure. Probably though. Sounds good. Yay for planning. On a lighter note I like marzipan and free library internet. Just thought you`d like to know. Oh yeah and last night we slept in the train station... and then McDonalds but then we got kicked out and slept in the train station again. It was mean. The schizo that I mentioned earlier was this crazy lady who sounded eastern european or something and she was speaking into this phone in english and it was weird. Something about her getting Fr. 3000 for killing woman...? I thought she was a mail order wife/hooker talking to her husband/pimp but we`ll never know. Saved 50 bucks by not getting a room. It was sweet.

Die Schweiz -more like Scheiss

We are in Zurich. It is cold. We have no place to stay because couchsurfing has been down for a bit so the girl that was going to host us ha`snt got back in contact. Also, this keyboard is really fucked up -like every country we go to has a different arrangement but this is just crazy.

My eyes are soiled and Risiko

Hello again everyone hope you saw snow today because we sure didnt. Today whilst Al moped about his German cold- I wonder where he got it from.... Arne, Malte, Birte, their cousin and I went to Ostsee-Therme which was like this swimming complex on the Baltic sea. So we went watersliding and swimming and had a dip in the Baltic. If you look on the map you'll realise its a fuck load more north than Invercargill is south. So that was cold but to warm up we had a 90c sauna. That was hot. But the naked people were not. Why do no hot people go into the naked saunas? And thus my eyes are soiled. Anyway that was cool and then there was Risiko, and I didnt win. Yes thats right I didnt win. I know that shocked alot of you but its true. I was wedged in a most unfortunate of positions and never held more than two continents. Al lost. No suprises. Even after Malte let Al hide inside his territory. Al made it up to him by capturing the entirety of Malte's interior. Didnt affect much though. In the end Malte won. Just. But it was close and exciting and I'm on a sugar high. So it's sweet. Haha pun. I wasnt going to add the pun bit but then Al suggested I do so I did. I'm such a comic genius.

The 25th is Gunther's birthday, not Christmas.

Some of you will know that the German's do their Christmas thingy on the 24th. Today is the 25th. It is Malte's Dad's birthday (Malte is Greg's family's exchange student).

Malte slept with a 14 year old in Greg's bed when he was in New Zealand. I just thought I should mention that. Apparently she didn't need to shave...

Anyway, so Greg, Malte, Arne and possibly Birte too (I'm not really paying attention) went swimming but I decided to flag because I've caught some crazy German cold and feel like shit. Not that this would stop me drinking tonight if the opportunity still exists. So I took a nap. It was epic. Speaking of epic, we are playing a game of Risk/Risiko tonight. With Germans. Over Christmas dinner Malte was talking shit about New Zealand never conquering anything so we'd be shit at Risk and Greg says 'What was that country we conquered in Europe? Begins with a G... Oh that's right, Germany!' This actually didn't go down badly, though I'm glad he refrained from yelling 'Kristalnacht all over again' when someone broke a glass.

Everyone else has gone... somewhere. So I'm hanging out with the dog, the turtles and the fish.

We head to Zurich in a few days, and then on to Rome.