I’ve been on the road for 2 weeks today.

So far:
– Visited 3 cities (Ferrara, Bologna, Porto)
– Stayed at 5 different people, all of them amazing folks I didn’t know before, plus spent 2 nights in a hostel
– Made about 15-20 plein air/urban sketching pieces, a handful of which I actually like, so that’s cool. If I keep it up I’ll hopefully have a series of good pictures at the end. Levelling up is sure due if I can consistantly produce some sketches with similar qualities.

Random bits of the trip not in chronological order:
– Had a long conversation with a guy who builds robots
– Was given a lift on a motorbike multiple times
– Painted on a naked man
– Met local artists and art teachers
– Went to a house party that due to many musicians being in the group randomly turned into a jam session
– Went to exhibition openings
– Attended the Bologna children’s book fair -went for portfolio reviews, listened to talks, collected business cards, handed out postcards, took notes, then organised my notes to a spreadsheet
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Tonight I’m taking an overnight but to go to south-Portugal where I’ll be a guest of a friend for aw few days and then go to a hostel to volunteer there for accomodation for a month. (At least I hope so, we agreed on it quite some time ago, but they didn’t respond to my message that I’ve sent them a few days ago about the specific date I could actually arrive. I really hope they are still expecting me even though they didn1t reply :D)

Anyway, if the bus is spacious enough and I don’t/can’t fall asleep I’ll try catching up with some story bits of my trip so far – elaborating a bit on the some of the teasers above. If I fall asleep easily or it seems impossible to whip out my laptop it remains a pending quest. But I did take ‘diary bits’ notes and managed to get my photos to the computer already, so yey for that. :))