COLD HEARTS ON VALENTINE'S DAY

I arrived to Padova and took a bus to my host's apartment.  Julia is a Polish girl that was raised in Venice.  She had much to tell me.  I was jointly hosted by her roommate Valentino and her cat.  A great cat.  Lovely hosts.  I just had one slight problem.  From the moment I arrived to the train station I had (and still have) a terrible headache.  My eyes burn and I have developed a funny cough.  It is so cold for me in Italy this time of year, inside and outside of buildings, but I don't think it is a flu.  It might be something I have picked up riding public transportation but I felt better yesterday in Venice walking around.  I think maybe it is the air in Padova.  I did go into the town alone on Valentine's Day to take some photos but honestly, my eyes and head hurt so much that I didn't take many.  Although cold and a bit miserable I did find HEART(s).

Yesterday was my day to return to Venice without the crowd of people for carnival.  I was blessed with sunshine.  Once again I have the time now to make and upload a video slideshow before returning to Vicenza and my host Denis.  I left my cell phone charger at his place so he gets to see me one more night.  I joked with him that I missed his cooking.  But it isn't a joke!!!!  Tomorrow night I am not sure where I will be.   I have couch requests into people in Milan and in Bologna, two different directions entirely, but I have not heard any replies.  Today I feel like a real vagabond.

NOTE!  In case you haven't seen it I have a separate page on the blog for my VIDEO CREATIONS.  (LOOK ABOVE FOR THE TAB)  I can only post a few photos within a blog post so I thought making slideshows would be a good way to share my photos.

Well this is a short post for today because my fingers are freezing.  There is a heating system in this apartment but they don't turn it on.  The radiators are ice cold.  Julia went to Milan last night for a couchsurfing event and her roommate is asleep so I can't ask anyone to please put up the heat.  I need GUANTI with the fingertips cut off so I can continue to type more... But I need to eat something anyway and get to the Italian word of the day: FERMATA = BUSTOP.

Hot food, hot food...I will reheat the pasta I made last night and that will surely help.  Here is wishing for an early WARM SPRING!