Comments | tsuki_no_bara: on the one hand, swear word. on the other, *phew*

tsuki_no_bara

on the one hand, swear word. on the other, phew

Jun 03, 2023 00:47

so my sister and i are not going to italy after all! our flight out was boston-amsterdam-florence (leaving boston saturday night and getting into amsterdam sunday morning), but we got an email and a text this morning that the amsterdam-florence leg was canceled ( Read more... )

what is this ridiculous fixation, wtf, movies, italy, nerd support

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That sucks simondonoghue June 5 2023, 19:00:45 UTC

But on the other hand . . . sleep in. A lot.

RE: That sucks tsuki_no_bara June 9 2023, 02:41:34 UTC

i went to work yesterday and today because i couldn't think of a reason not to. tomorrow i'm working from home tho so i can sleep a little later.

(my sister and i went to new york on sunday and came back tuesday and we had sights to see so there wasn't a lot of sleeping in.)

amberdreams June 10 2023, 16:49:36 UTC

Well flip! I'm not sure I'd be quite so chill about it, but go you for rolling with the punches.

Suggestion for a future trip to Italy - don't do it with a tour company. Just book an air b'n'b or apartment, fly to Florence or wherever, and do it all yourselves. Italian trains are good and go to so many places, Florence is a good base for a few day trips if you want, and if you book via Booking.com or similar you can usually find places where you can cancel almost up to the last minute.

I'm in Lucca now - it's bellissima!

tsuki_no_bara June 12 2023, 03:47:37 UTC

going to new york for a couple days really helped, because at least we got to go somewhere. i think if we hadn't already had so many issues with the trip it would have been worse, but maybe we were subconsciously primed to not go.

it was my sister's birthday trip and she wanted to take a guided tour because it's a foreign country and neither of us speaks the language. *shrug* i went to italy almost twenty (!!!) years ago with some friends and we winged it - we booked hotels and i think we got tickets to see david ahead of time, but otherwise we got our train tickets when we showed up at the station - but my sister isn't quite that adventurous.

amberdreams June 12 2023, 14:12:14 UTC

Ah shame - mostly you can get by without speaking much as long as you understand a bit and know enough to be polite. Plus there are a few little tricks that help when getting round - like knowing to book intercity trains in advance and remembering to validate tickets on the platform before embarking.
Maybe another time!