it's raining and i'm very excited about that. i have to go into work tomorrow (instead of getting an extra hour of sleep and being able to work from home) and i'm not excited about that. altho my sense of time is off because monday was a holiday, so i'll probably think it's thursday anyway
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Ooh where in Italy and when are you going? I'm down for two trips thanks to JIBs, but haven't yet added any extra days to either, because I can't decide where I want my add-on days to be yet.
I admit if I was to return to the US, Vegas would be bottom of my list LOL
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i actually really like vegas because it's just so ridiculous. it doesn't feel like a real place. but i get why it's not everyone's thing.
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I haven't been to Lake Como or the mountains, maybe one day. I went to Verona when I was 16, always wanted to revisit. Siena is lovely, been there a couple of times, and of course, Florence and Venice are must sees - though I'd recommend doing Venice in the winter because in the summer it's HEAVING. Mind you, if you wander the back streets instead of hanging round the main tourist bits, it's not so bad.
My friend and I had a few days in Cinque Terre - it's just as pretty as the pictures and you can walk from one town to the next - if you're fit! Lots and lots of steps up hill and downhill - so you don't actually travel far in terms of a-b but do many kilometres up and down! The views are worth it though.
Italy has a good train service to virtually everywhere - one year we flew to Bologna, got the train to Ravenna then went back to visit Bologna itself, got the train to Rome for JIB 😂. It's pretty reasonably priced too, and you don't need to book in advance. But I'm assuming you're on some sort of curated tour, so you probably won't ( ... )
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oooh, ravenna. there's some nice early-christianity mosaics there that i want to see. some day!
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(also, shocker, the roof leaks.)
When my father was waiting on jury duty one day in a FLW building (the majestic Marin County Civic Center, which you may have seen in the movie Gattaca) he composed a tongue-twister that I used in warm-ups for many years: Frank Lloyd Wright's Roofs Leak 😄
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