08-15-2018, 10:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-15-2018, 11:51 AM by Drunk Monk.)
Google went italian on me, so yeah, a bit. Been avoiding news, truth be told. I so needed the break. But yeah, last I saw the death count was 23. Tara kind of wants to go to Genoa because it figures so highly in so many Shakespeare plays. They'll do that without me, along with Venice and Greece. Yeah, I'm bummed about that but I just can't afford more financially or away from work. I just glanced at some of our viral and the crew has already effed a bunch of stuff up (and I've only been gone a week). Mind you, I'd abandon them in a heartbeat (web stuff is easy enough to fix later) but I'm just out of time off for this year.
Forgot to mention that the UN tour was cool. Made me proud of the world but ashamed for our nation. The tour guide tactfully discussed the US exit from the Human Rights Council and then launched into all the great stuff they do, a lot of which I wasn't fully aware. We managed to get there just in time (turns out all public transit in Geneva is free if you're at a hotel) - they cut the line off right after us for the next hour tour which we couldn't have made because our train times.
We hopped the train to Milan - Trenatalia, and my in the gutter mind kept wanting to swap that Tr for a G. That circled the lake and went through the alps - the most spectacular train ride I've ever taken in my life -
IN MY LIFE
- but it escaped my cheap point&shoot camera because it was just too awesome and the moving train windows ruined all my attempts. The free wifi needed a credit card and I wasn't going there. We had about 2 hours to kill in Milan and Tara and I spun around the block as Stacy enjoyed her first Italian cappuccino. Then back on the train for a few hours, then stumbling around the night streets of Florence trying to find our AirBnB.
The bummer about traveling by rail is they don’t stamp your passport. I like collecting those country stamps.
Forgot to mention that the UN tour was cool. Made me proud of the world but ashamed for our nation. The tour guide tactfully discussed the US exit from the Human Rights Council and then launched into all the great stuff they do, a lot of which I wasn't fully aware. We managed to get there just in time (turns out all public transit in Geneva is free if you're at a hotel) - they cut the line off right after us for the next hour tour which we couldn't have made because our train times.
We hopped the train to Milan - Trenatalia, and my in the gutter mind kept wanting to swap that Tr for a G. That circled the lake and went through the alps - the most spectacular train ride I've ever taken in my life -
IN MY LIFE
- but it escaped my cheap point&shoot camera because it was just too awesome and the moving train windows ruined all my attempts. The free wifi needed a credit card and I wasn't going there. We had about 2 hours to kill in Milan and Tara and I spun around the block as Stacy enjoyed her first Italian cappuccino. Then back on the train for a few hours, then stumbling around the night streets of Florence trying to find our AirBnB.
The bummer about traveling by rail is they don’t stamp your passport. I like collecting those country stamps.
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