Well, what goes up must come down and my attitude has plummeted like a rock :) I have lost all motivation to do anything. I don’t feel like being sociable, I don’t feel like drinking or eating, and I definitely don’t feel like walking!Once again when my alarm went off this morning I just turned it off and went back to sleep. I didn’t feel like moving anywhere.
My attitude over the last few days has been pretty crap and now my bodies decided to join in the fun. When I stopped last night my heels were a bit sore but they seemed to get worse through the night. Every time I rolled over they would wake me up in pain. They weren’t any better when I finally got up to leave so it was a painful first few kilometers.
It didn’t help that the transvestites were out in force as well. Normally I find their over the top exuberance amusing but today it was all a bit much. Every time they tried to talk to me I got a headache :(
Over the last few weeks I have been finding it easy to walk for 10kms without taking a rest but lately I have been lucky to make 4-5kms. It seems that as soon as I start walking all I think about is stopping again.
I managed to stagger the 20kms to Livorno and spotting a laundry on the way in I decided to do some washing. It was token operated and there was no one around to help so after inserting €20 it asked if I wanted 6 tokens (4 too many). I pushed the “no” button but to no avail. I then rang the number on the machine but the woman didn’t speak any English. I figured if I wait the machine would give up and spit my money back out….it didn’t :( I gave up first and got the 6 tokens…
I was feeling pretty pissed off by this stage and put my clothes on and went for a feed. This cheered me up a bit and I realized that rather than being pissed off, I now had the chance to repay a bit of the generosity that I had been receiving over the last few weeks. So I went back to the laundry and gave away my extra four tokens. I think having a good meal helped as well, but this left me feeling much better :)
After going to the internet I thought I could make another 10kms before dark. I didn’t count on taking a wrong turn, so I only made five, but oh well…
I have also noticed that Tuscany has a lot of rubbish! It is really surprising but along all the roads and in a lot of parks there is rubbish everywhere.
I found a really nice spot by the river and set up to watch the sunset. I also had one last job to do before bed, which was to pop the big blister that had appeared on my little toe. It wasn’t pretty :)
3 comments:
Sounds like you need a few good meals of pasta pasta and pasta to get you going again. All the best for getting through this rough patch.
Yes...
That was my theory exactly, eat my way out of it :)
It's all this adventurous camping near the track that impresses me! As a mumble-mumble-aged female I would be waaay too scared to do that. But I am impressed reading about someone else doing it!
Glad you are back into enjoying it. And I agree, the campsite prices are almost unbelievable!
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