I've made it Hôme at last!

Heloo, as the keyboard seems to want for me to say. I am in Barcelona - the night train left me in one piece, one tired piece, but I am here and all is well with the world! I have had my earl grey tea, I have had a shower, and the DVD room of Hôme Hostel seems to be beckoning me tonight. I even washed my hair!

The crapness of Milano didn't end at the last post! It ended today, when I discovered that while on the Milano Metro someone nicked, pilfered, robbed, stole from me a small pencil case type thing - which they obviously, stupidly and wrongly thought was of value and say, a wallet - but which instead contained tampons, anti-menstrual-pain drugs (my friends! my sadly missed friends!) and some not-currently-in-use-but-not-retired-either badges! That bastard! Or a desperate menstrual woman who likes badges of strange cartoon characters - I thought that was only me and Rachel and Rachel (when menstrual and minus the desperate part I think)! At least most of my best badges are in use, safely attached to my bags and clothing. But the drugs, today of all days, I miss! Aah, the pain. And Rachel, Furry Bowels, this means more badges must be made once I am back in Melbourne, to replace the ones the cruel Milano Menstrual Metro Robber stole from me! Including the Harry-Ron-looking-at-Draco-in-crystal-ball one - which would have been damn appropriate for me to wear tomorrow night when I chase down some Harry-Ron-Draco tension at the cinema, hopefully not dubbed in Spanish!! For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, never mind.

Anyway, not much more to report, as I have done little here so far. Became acquainted with the hammock in the garden of the hostel, while I drank a nice and well-needed cup of earl grey tea and wrote in my journal. (The most important thing I wrote is: Avoid Milan at all costs, especially its Metro!) Found the Lidl supermarket via a funny park that had a bit of water - pondage, lake-type thing - that had triangles of wooden islands in it and a stone bridge going over it. Crazy! But probably not so crazy as Gaudi. I will report back on that one. I am looking forward to exploring this gorgeous sun-filled place and all its Gaudi and Picasso and Miro. Hopefully also there will be some new cheap summer-ish clothes for me to buy and take back for my Aussie summer. Also I want another book as I sadly finished the last Kurt Vonnegut last night on the train. I feel silly buying another book to carry around with me (especially as I can't bear to part with the others - I loved them too much! I now am growing a bit of a Travelling Kurt Vonnegut Library!). But one week without reading - I don't think I can do it! Especially not the killer plane ride back home - and with Lufthansa rather than the delightful Singapore airlines and their individual screens! ... ,-) (That´s a one eyed wink!)

xxxx