Italy Part 2
And it continues...
-Verona-
We went to Verona with Tommaso’s friend Massimo who reads this so I can only say good things about him. Thanks for driving us Massimo! It was really nice-- a big difference between Czech Republic and Italy is that people are actually on the streets at night and enjoying life. The atmosphere is great. We visited Juliet’s house and rubbed her right boob (It’s supposed to be the lucky one! Everyone does it!) and me, Lukasz, and Massimo waited outside while Tommaso and Mirka shared some romantical time. Love is in the air! We did some walking and sightseeing and afterwards we had some pre-dinner wine (which is the cool thing to do in Italy) and pizza. I ate a lot of pizza that weekend, and it was fabulous.
-Venice-
Venice is really beautiful, no cars-- just walking and water transport. Tommaso was the perfect tour guide-- reading out of his Venice book and pointing at buildings along our boat ride. There were boatloads of Japanese tourists who waved at us, and they were so cute we just had to wave back! The whole day we were in Venice we made fun of Lukasz’s face in pictures because he would look perfectly fine until you took the picture and then he would have a funny look on his face. We called it “Lukasz’s stupid face”. This sounds mean but I promise you it was actually really, really funny. “Hey Lukasz, don’t do your stupid face in this picture!” Then he discovered if he smiled a certain way he wouldn’t look stupid. It was kind of a fake smile but atleast it wasn’t a stupid face.
Most people who know me know that I do not like birds. Let me clarify, I like some birds (for example tropical birds like the resplendent quetzal) but I don’t like pigeons (rats on wings) or sea gulls. In the Piazza di San Marco (like in a lot of squares worldwide) there were a lot of birds. And there were people who put birdseed on themselves and let birds fly all over them. I don’t understand this. Why? Gross. Birds. Yuck. And possibility of being pooped on. I can think of much better things to do with my life. Anyway, the Piazza was nice except for the gross birds.
Luckily, contrary to reports I have received from other people, the water wasn’t really smelly in Venice. A few people have told me that it REALLY smells, but I guess since it is wintery it hasn’t really gotten around to smelling bad yet. Score!
The day in Venice was perfect and relaxing as we walked through the small windy streets, took a gondola across the river just to say that we rode in a gondola (the long rides are pretty expensive), ate gelato (so good!) and took loads of photos. Yay for Venice!
-Mission-
Saturday night we met up with some of Tommaso’s friends for drinks and dinner. Mirka and I decided that it would be our mission to steal something as a souvenir from every place we went that night. Luckily I had my bag with me. I now have a really big red candle and a beer glass, and Mirka has a little dish. Classy.
-Ciao Venice-
We left Venice expecting to get home about 8 hours later (for me, 10 for the guys). What we did not count on was stupid Austrian roads in the mountains. It was really weird because on the Italian side the roads were shovelled and perfect, and as soon as we drove across the border it was really snowy because they didn’t plow the roads! I thought the Italians were supposed to be the lazy ones (no offense to the Italians reading)!Icy roads and snow= bad driving conditions. We were actually stopped for quite a while then driving about 40km an hour. It took 11 hours to get to Brno, and the guys still had to keep going to Ostrava. And they both started work at like 6am. Lucky!
So that’s my trip to Italy! Thanks to the guys and Mirka for a great time, and special thanks for Tommaso for driving us!!
-Verona-
We went to Verona with Tommaso’s friend Massimo who reads this so I can only say good things about him. Thanks for driving us Massimo! It was really nice-- a big difference between Czech Republic and Italy is that people are actually on the streets at night and enjoying life. The atmosphere is great. We visited Juliet’s house and rubbed her right boob (It’s supposed to be the lucky one! Everyone does it!) and me, Lukasz, and Massimo waited outside while Tommaso and Mirka shared some romantical time. Love is in the air! We did some walking and sightseeing and afterwards we had some pre-dinner wine (which is the cool thing to do in Italy) and pizza. I ate a lot of pizza that weekend, and it was fabulous.
-Venice-
Venice is really beautiful, no cars-- just walking and water transport. Tommaso was the perfect tour guide-- reading out of his Venice book and pointing at buildings along our boat ride. There were boatloads of Japanese tourists who waved at us, and they were so cute we just had to wave back! The whole day we were in Venice we made fun of Lukasz’s face in pictures because he would look perfectly fine until you took the picture and then he would have a funny look on his face. We called it “Lukasz’s stupid face”. This sounds mean but I promise you it was actually really, really funny. “Hey Lukasz, don’t do your stupid face in this picture!” Then he discovered if he smiled a certain way he wouldn’t look stupid. It was kind of a fake smile but atleast it wasn’t a stupid face.
Most people who know me know that I do not like birds. Let me clarify, I like some birds (for example tropical birds like the resplendent quetzal) but I don’t like pigeons (rats on wings) or sea gulls. In the Piazza di San Marco (like in a lot of squares worldwide) there were a lot of birds. And there were people who put birdseed on themselves and let birds fly all over them. I don’t understand this. Why? Gross. Birds. Yuck. And possibility of being pooped on. I can think of much better things to do with my life. Anyway, the Piazza was nice except for the gross birds.
Luckily, contrary to reports I have received from other people, the water wasn’t really smelly in Venice. A few people have told me that it REALLY smells, but I guess since it is wintery it hasn’t really gotten around to smelling bad yet. Score!
The day in Venice was perfect and relaxing as we walked through the small windy streets, took a gondola across the river just to say that we rode in a gondola (the long rides are pretty expensive), ate gelato (so good!) and took loads of photos. Yay for Venice!
-Mission-
Saturday night we met up with some of Tommaso’s friends for drinks and dinner. Mirka and I decided that it would be our mission to steal something as a souvenir from every place we went that night. Luckily I had my bag with me. I now have a really big red candle and a beer glass, and Mirka has a little dish. Classy.
-Ciao Venice-
We left Venice expecting to get home about 8 hours later (for me, 10 for the guys). What we did not count on was stupid Austrian roads in the mountains. It was really weird because on the Italian side the roads were shovelled and perfect, and as soon as we drove across the border it was really snowy because they didn’t plow the roads! I thought the Italians were supposed to be the lazy ones (no offense to the Italians reading)!Icy roads and snow= bad driving conditions. We were actually stopped for quite a while then driving about 40km an hour. It took 11 hours to get to Brno, and the guys still had to keep going to Ostrava. And they both started work at like 6am. Lucky!
So that’s my trip to Italy! Thanks to the guys and Mirka for a great time, and special thanks for Tommaso for driving us!!
posted by Aruna at 11:32 AM
2 Comments:
Birds are nice. The only I'm not so fine with them though is that they are hatched from eggs and they lay eggs...
What comes first? The bird or the egg? They are both gross.
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