Hey everybody,
Just a quick post before I go meet Emilie in the train station. She will do a summary of Croatia when we get internet again... and we might do some pictures for the imaginationly challanged.
Rome was actually quite alot of fun. Friday night my cousin had a dinner at his place, many people came. It was a good time, he has a sweet flat with a huge patio. Basically the penthouse suite. Looks over a sizable chunk of rome.
Saturday night I, along with half a million Romans, went to watch Genisis in concert in Circo Massimo (the place where the Romans ran Chariots). It was pretty sureal to see that many people packed in the shadow of Roman ruins.
Sunday evening was spent chilling out on a beach near Rome. The water wasn't fantastic but I still went for a swim with my cousin.
All in all fun was had in Rome.
On Tuesday I was back in Valle dell'Orco sleeping in the little place we had found before. At about 6:30 in the morning I was awoken by a sharp rap on the window. I pulled on a shirt and blurry eyed opened the door.
"No Camping"
"Uuh sorry didn't know"
"Camping just up there" and he points up the road.
"Ok" and he leaves. I slept fitfully until 9:30 at which point I wrote a short story in my diary. Around 3:00 I did a short 5.5 hour hike to a small alpine lake. Pizza saw me to sleep at the actually resonably priced campground.
This morning I played around on a 5.10d crack problem on a boulder. It was too hard for me to even get off the ground. I blame it on my big hands (it's a perfect splitter problem, very asthetic, they actually changed the plans for the tunnel they constructed in order to preserve the famous crack)
In the afternoon, I made my way to Torino to cook and wait for Emilie. Now the wait is over and soon we shall be reunited. Tomorrow we are considering doing a 500m climb but the approach road is closed. I'd hate to be woken up to "No Camping, and the road is closed moron, here's a massive ticket". I'll have a chat with Emilie when she gets here. If we go it'll be 3k of altitude gain and loss over about 10 - 14 hours. Should be fun!
Cheers.
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Hey David,
Looks like you're having fun in Europe! Are you going to make it back for any part of the climbing season here in the Rockies?
L.
Nathan and I got back last weekend from sport wanking in Alberta and I'm just now playing catch up with your blog.
Luckly there weren't too many entries while I was away.
Glad you're keeping up with the entries, I'm enjoying reading them and living vicariously through you two ;).
Ya, we'll be back in Canada on August 31st. So for some (me) I will be back for about 2 -3 months of the rock season. For others (grant) I will be back for one month of the rock season, one month of shoulder season and then the rest of the ice season.
If you change your flight into Vancouver, I can drive down from Squamish and pick you up for a couple days of Squishy granite. If not then I'll be back after the long weekend and we can hit up Mugs if you like. Haven't been there for a while. September sounds good for rock though as you seem to have my schedule figured out. lol
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