Europe Trip: Day 14, June 3rd

Has it been two weeks?! Hard to believe.

I had to get up a bit earlier because Julius' ex-roommate had to come to get his couch back. Which also means I no longer could use that couch! So he ended up getting a roll-up thing that is between a mattress and a sleeping pad, more towards the sleeping pad. I'll manage.

Since I had gotten up earlier, I also left earlier, but I really needed to stay on my laptop and get some CouchSearching done. It is June 3rd, and I leave for Verona on June 4th...with absolutely ZERO couches set up for the rest of my trip.

My first stop was to Westbahnhof to get my train ticket, it cost about 94 euros to get from Vienna to Innsbruck to Verona -- unfortunately there was no direct connection. Then I took the U-bahn to Stephansplatz and found a cafe that had Wifi, ordering a hot chocolate so they wouldn't kick me out.

I sent out a good 20+ couch requests in mostly Florence and Rome, but a couple more in the Verona area. I finally got a bit of luck with someone in the Tuscany area, not in Florence but 30-50 kilometers away offering his couch for the 9th-11th. So there is getting to be some hope.

I also wrote down the location of a couple different possible hostels that cost around 20-30 euros per night in Verona. Still within my budget, but much harder to get around and it is nicer to spend that on other things that where I stay :)

I am hopeful that my work today will turn out some success, but we shall see.

My host, Julius, is now cooking dinner for me. Something with this onion sauce and beef as the meat. It smells good, hope it tastes as good! After that we might go to his friends birthday party for a little bit and then maybe watch Fight Club.

Then it is off to bed, because my train leaves at 9:40am. If I miss it, then I have to pay another 40 euros to get to Verona. Italy is not as kind as Austria in when you use their trains, you have a reservation and you'd better make it.