May 26, 2003 – Monday

Kelsey cops a feel

Had to wake up around 4 am in order to shower and finish packing a travel bag for Italy. We met my parents at the Lausanne train station. Took the train to Brig, where we caught a Cisalpino train to Milano. We had no reservations for the train, which were apparently required, so we had to split up in order to find seats, which ended up costing us more money.

Kelsey and I ended up sitting across from this Australian woman, whose actual gender was much in question. S/he was very nice, but s/he had these very thickly penciled eyebrows that proved to be very distracting. Well, the whole transgender question proved a little distracting too.

When we got to Milano, we had to hop another train to Ventimiglia, then to Genova Piazza Principale, where we boarded another train that finally took us to Monterosso in Cinque Terre. Upon arrival, we met a guy who took us to a nice little 3 bedroom apartment where we would be staying for the next couple of nights.

Kelsey and I headed out to the balcony of my room, and noticed quite a nice view. There was this shirtless, muscular gardener at a house across the way, and we broke out Kelsey’s camcorder in order to preserve the memory. After that, we headed for dinner at Miky Ristorante, which was recommended to us. Unfortunately, the food took forever, and wasn’t very filling, so we were still hungry afterwards. But by that time it was so late that nothing was open.