Another questions: ... is it wrong to stalk nuns?

...But they're just so cute!

I am in Roma, Italy, and enjoying the nun and mullet spotting. So far haven't seen the two combined but if only I could get under those habits...! Don't have much time because the coffee beckons. Italy is great. Boy, do they know how to eat! Especially after all the stodge of Germany. No, that's not entirely true - I ate very well in Berlin, thanks to Mich and Charlie's wonderful cooking and taking me to all sorts of great restaurants. Monsieur Vuong comes to mind - surely Berlin's own Iron Chef!

Berlin was great, as per usual. I really love that city - I don't even have to be doing anything special and I'm happy to be there. Finally got to the Jewish Museum which was well worth it (when I was in Berlin in August, me and Marnie planned to go pretty much every day we were there and never got there!). I also saw a special Picasso exhibition, which was amazing. So much Picasso - room after room after room, of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, even a film he made later on in life which showed him drawing, ie. the process he goes through in creating a drawing. Very inspiring.

After Berlin, Dresden - which I think I liked because bits of it are like a mini Berlin: scungey and arty and with the cute East pedestrian traffic lights which I love so much. Also, as a bonus, I didn't kill myself while riding around on a slightly too-big bike and without a helmet and totally unsure of which direction the traffic would be coming from!

Then onto Munich, which was ok - but not my favourite. While there, Genna channelled the spirit of Lydia Bennett and ran off, not with a soldier, but with a yank. Makes me wonder where, if anywhere, my Mr Darcy is? I'd even settle for Matthew McFayden, if he was available, (Sorry, Colin). Or even his wife(?) Keeley Hawes... Hmmm... So I am back to travelling my by onesy again, which is really quite not-bad at all (especially given Genna turned out to be such a - how shall I put it? - crappo friend). Also now no one to frown on my nun stalking habits or on going back to the cat shelter here in Rome every day!

I found this great cat shelter on my first day here. There are ancient ruins all over the place here and I stumbled across another lot right in the centre of town - a big block sunken below ground level as a result of the excavation of the ruins of 4 temples, dating from 4 to 2 thousand years ago (as in the info sheet told me). And the place is being used as a shelter for abandoned cats! They have a bit where they treat the sick ones and there are healthy ones wondering around left right and centre. You can go in and pat them and play with them. There are apparently 150 cats there! So it makes me happy as I'm missing my kitties back in Melbourne so much. And there are some really beautiful moggies as well and most of them fairly friendly. And hopefully I won't get rabies by the time I leave!

So here I sign off for now.
E.
xxx