Italia

Siamo in Italia!
Me and Clara have been here for a week, and oh boy what a week. We decided to prolong our travels after spending so much time with fellow travelers in France. So here we are - olive picking. We've just finished the first week at a farm near Grosseto, south Tuscany. It was an interesting experience. The work was cool although pretty hard on our untrained biceps - it consisted of "combing" the trees with a sort of vibrating pitch fork, so that the olives would come flying out at a ridiculous speed and force. It hurt when they hit you in the eye. It was only 4 hours a day though, so tolerable. The rest of the day was spent exploring the area - old villages, hot springs, sunset on the beach, oil mill... The only two things that bothered us was: 1. It was a German colony. There were 12 of us and we were the ony non-Germans, so we spent most of the time looking at each other and thinking, oh God. But they were nice enough, except for 3 really butch women/men. 2. We had to pay for own food, which is against Helpx's principles, but it was the boss's first time with Helpx so.. I don't know, there wassn't much we could do.
So we're in Assisi at the mo, going to Perugia this afternoon to start at the second farm (olive picking aswell, and 7 hours of it..).
Will try to update but it's difficult to find a computer on olive farms.
Hi from Clara!