Wow, let me just say that I love Italy. Florence is an amazing city, and I am staying at a wicked cool hostel.
Shit, I love it here.
Yesterday I took the train down from Venice. That is a very beautiful city. It was sunny and the canals had such a wonderful teal color to them, which is a nice change from the brown water that I am used to back home and in northern Europe. I walked around Venice for a few hours with this Australian girl and New Zealand guy, at which point I realized that there is absolutely jack-sh*t to do in Venice so I moved on to Florence the next day.
This is such a beautiful city! I can’t believe it sometimes. I walked around all day with the New Zealand guy, who stayed here in the afternoon. I went to that famous dome, which I can’t remember who built it or why, and went up a hill which overlooks the entire city.
Anyways, I went back to the hostel and the manager/owner of this place is a super nice guy named Marcos. He took everyone in the hostel out to a wonderful Italian restaurant where I had Spaghetti with wild boar and a plate of assorted meats. Venetian steak is an interesting dish, pretty much raw beef, but Marcos and this other guy who is living her absolutely love it. We all went through a couple bottles of red wine (there was 12 of us, so that wasn’t hard) and then we went up and bought a couple bottles of this local hard licker and more wine and drank that in the park.
Everyone here is so nice, and I love Italians!
I came back to the hostel for a quick shot of the Absinthe, which I bought during the 3 hours I stayed in the Czech Republic, and I went to a bar with this guy from Hawaii, a couple people from chili, some guy from Australia, and another dude from the UK. The bar was pretty lame actually, but I was drunk enough to not care. I ended up walking around with the UK guy for a while because we got lost while he was buying cigarettes and ended up stumbling back into the hostel about a half an hour after everyone else. This is most definitely hangover number 2, but I have never been so content with a hangover in my life.
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MMMMMMM raw meat....
Ah, yes, that exotic, "teal" light of Venice ;-)... I wonder what may be causing that??? (Other than those fancy new sunglasses that is)... Well, here's a clue.. (from http://tinyurl.com/zt8db)
"The Municipality of Venice is making efforts to reduce pollution, including the use of buffer strips to capture agricultural nutrients with trees and shrubbery along the edges of the Lagoon. Scientists are also trying to determine how a treatment plant might reduce nitrate and phosphate deposits in the lagoon. In the meantime, the Lagoon continues to suffer from increases in algae, mosquitoes, and other consequences of industrial pollution, laundry detereents, and fertilizer runoff."
...Yum. :) (?!)
Greetings from the true blue, cool, fresh waters of the mighty Columbia; enabling the growth of picture-perfect towns like Hood River -- Windsurfing capital of the world. Maybe some day you can invite your Euro friends to hang (10) around there. (?) :)
Speaking of glasses... those look real cool. Cucci? Prada? ___?
(Remember who wears Prada ol bud :)
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