I haven't written in a while...so, I'm going to sum. Budapest was alright. Dubrovnik was beautiful. Split was ugly and boring. Hvar Island was mojitos. Salzburg was likewise beautiful and I've just arrived in Vienna. And, well, I'm one lucky girl. I've arrived on Vienna on the day of the match (taking place in Vienna) of the quarter-finals of the Euro-Cup....Spain v. ITALIA!!! I am beyond happy. I've been really getting into the Euro-cup...we've watched at least 6 matches since it's started and now I get to see a match...almost in person. They have this "fan zone" set up in an area of Vienna where they have giant screens and all the fans watch together, drink, and make a rukus. Sounds fun, right? Well, I'll be there in about 45 minutes, so yea, I'm totally stoked. I love calcio (football...and yes, despite the fact that I am an American I am going to call the sport by its rightful name), I love love love Italia, and I am giddy. I've already bought myself a jersey, a scarf, and a bottle of wine...and it's like I'm practically back in Italia, in Roma, already. Man, do I miss Italia. In all these travels my love hasn't wavered and its still my number one place I've been to thus far.
Pretty much everyone here is supporting Spain, so if you are out there reading this on the day of the 22nd--send Italia some love and hopefully we can pull through.
I'll be leaving Vienna on the 24th for the NEtherlands and then leaving there (its only really a stop over not a real travel destination) on the morning of the 25th, and back in the US for a later dinner that night. I'm all nervous about going home. I haven't been there in over 6 months, it feels foreign, distant. But all the same I'm ready for it and excited to go back to my job of coaching babies how to swim. hokay, so that's it.
FORZA ITALIA!!!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
pictures
this computer sucks, pictures are uploading VERY slowly, so I'm adding to this a link to my facebook album which is only half full thanks to the shittyness of this computer. I'll try again with pictures in a few days.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2141683&l=9a4e3&id=6710589
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2141683&l=9a4e3&id=6710589
PEST
Hokay, so we are in Budapest right now (well, actually we are in Pest, but whatevsies). So, Barcelona was a lot of fun. We did all the Gaudi's and went inside all the stuff that didn't and then regretted the last time I was there. Going back to Barcelona made me fall back in love with that city. I think mostly I love it for all the Gaudi's, but also the food is good, the people are really nice, and Spain is just beautiful. Now, I think I'm always gonna have Italy as my number one place to be, but I think Spain could easily come in second. I really want to travel around and see more of the country, but hopefully with someone who remembers their Spainish. I got like "gracias", "lo siento," and "hola" down, but everything else I don't really remember. Four years of the language, and I suck at it, that doesn't give me much hope for my Italian. Oh well.
We tried chocolate (their hot chocolate is really thick) and churros and it wasn't as good as I was expecting. Their churros are just like fried dough. And now, I know that in Mexico its just fried dough...but they roll all that in cinnamon and sugar and it tastes bomb, this stuff was kinda icky. One day we also made it out to Velancia, which really made me want to see more of Spain. It's a very cool beach town. We ended up not doing much cos we didn't have much time there and like everything was closed but we did go to a church that claims to have the Holy Grail---and their grail is the only one recognized by the Vatican. Pretty cool. Also a highlight of that day is when we headed over to the beach we saw a large group of guys wearing the Borat-style swimsuit---a one piece with shoulder straps and a thong...IS NICE!!! Our last night there we went to Club Magic, which I had gone to before with my friends when I was there a couple of months ago. It was a lot of fun, but all my clothes reak of ciggarette smoke and bo. gross.
Then on to Lisbon. We weren't there for very long--about a day and a half, so we didn't get a lot done. We went to the castle the first day and a museum. The second day we went to the Oceanarium (where we bought ourselves some pretty cool tshirts), after which we got sushi (which made us feel a bit guilty since the aquarium kept on preaching about how we shouldn't be eating fish and whatnot). And later on watched a calcio match--netherlands v. italy. It was like Em v. me, or at least I thought so, she didn't seem to be ammused. Well, we lost terribly, which was a bummer. While we were watching the game though, two Italian guys came and sat next to us and the waiter would come out and talk to them in Italian--and man, was he being mean. He kept on being like, your team is playing like shit or that guy is a terrible player, whatever. Non me piace, ma I did like being able to understand what he said. The only other highlight of Lisbon was the super fine boy who worked at the hostel desk. Man, if all Portugeus guys look like that, I think I may just have to return. Damn.
Now we are in Budapest, so far we have seen one of the Castles, St. Stephen's basilica, and a bunch of boring landmarks. We are gonna go to the thermal baths tomorrow. I want to go out clubbing tonight cos they are supposed to have an amazing nightlife here, but I'm feeling pretty sick and a bug bit Em on her eyelid so she's all swollen, so it probably won't happen. Oh well. Okay, that's it for now, I'm gonna try to upload some pics, we'll see how it goes.
S
We tried chocolate (their hot chocolate is really thick) and churros and it wasn't as good as I was expecting. Their churros are just like fried dough. And now, I know that in Mexico its just fried dough...but they roll all that in cinnamon and sugar and it tastes bomb, this stuff was kinda icky. One day we also made it out to Velancia, which really made me want to see more of Spain. It's a very cool beach town. We ended up not doing much cos we didn't have much time there and like everything was closed but we did go to a church that claims to have the Holy Grail---and their grail is the only one recognized by the Vatican. Pretty cool. Also a highlight of that day is when we headed over to the beach we saw a large group of guys wearing the Borat-style swimsuit---a one piece with shoulder straps and a thong...IS NICE!!! Our last night there we went to Club Magic, which I had gone to before with my friends when I was there a couple of months ago. It was a lot of fun, but all my clothes reak of ciggarette smoke and bo. gross.
Then on to Lisbon. We weren't there for very long--about a day and a half, so we didn't get a lot done. We went to the castle the first day and a museum. The second day we went to the Oceanarium (where we bought ourselves some pretty cool tshirts), after which we got sushi (which made us feel a bit guilty since the aquarium kept on preaching about how we shouldn't be eating fish and whatnot). And later on watched a calcio match--netherlands v. italy. It was like Em v. me, or at least I thought so, she didn't seem to be ammused. Well, we lost terribly, which was a bummer. While we were watching the game though, two Italian guys came and sat next to us and the waiter would come out and talk to them in Italian--and man, was he being mean. He kept on being like, your team is playing like shit or that guy is a terrible player, whatever. Non me piace, ma I did like being able to understand what he said. The only other highlight of Lisbon was the super fine boy who worked at the hostel desk. Man, if all Portugeus guys look like that, I think I may just have to return. Damn.
Now we are in Budapest, so far we have seen one of the Castles, St. Stephen's basilica, and a bunch of boring landmarks. We are gonna go to the thermal baths tomorrow. I want to go out clubbing tonight cos they are supposed to have an amazing nightlife here, but I'm feeling pretty sick and a bug bit Em on her eyelid so she's all swollen, so it probably won't happen. Oh well. Okay, that's it for now, I'm gonna try to upload some pics, we'll see how it goes.
S
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Venezia a Barcelona
So, after Corfu we headed over to Venice which was all kinds of depressing for me. I was so happy to be back in Italy, while simultaneously being upset that I had to leave--and this time for who knows for how long until I will return again. I fortunately had an amazing send-off pizza: mozzerella, brie, and rocket salad...yum. But the last day there everything I ate tasted like shit so I wasn´t so pleased. On our flight out there was a huge lightening storm, and our plane actually flew through the outskirts of the thunderhead. It was crazy close. Very cool and a really special kinda last view of Italy---the lightening above and the fadding lights of the Italian countryside below. I want it to kinda be like an omen, but one of those good ones about me coming back real soon. Meh, maybe I´ll write more later about my feelings about leaving Italy but right now I have 3 more minutes of internet time...so today we arrived in Barcelona--we did most of the stuff I did here last time except that this time I went into the Cathedral and one of the Gaudi´s, and man, I´m happy I did. Pictures to come if internet is ever cheep (maybe in Budapest?)
s
p.s. the spell check in broke---i´m sorry my spelling is BAD.
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p.s. the spell check in broke---i´m sorry my spelling is BAD.
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