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Play Misty for Me, Italia
Now that we’ve been back in the US from Italy for almost a week we’ve had time to think about the things that we will always remember, and regret a few things that got away.
Things we’ll always remember:
- a bottle of wine with lunch and dinner every day. Extremely civilized. Also makes the day much more pleasant and bearable.
- being groped on the 64 Termini bus. Sounds a lot better in theory than in practice.
- the wonder that is Castroni.
- attempted pickpocketing on the bridge to Trastevere. How we would have loved to club that little f#$%er with our umbrella. Still, he got nothing from us, so nothing lost.
- the awfulness of Italian TV.
- watching all the episodes of HBO’s Rome on our laptop since Italian TV was so awful.
- how it is impossible to find an bad view in Rome.
- how we were nearly paralyzed by the ancient IKEA sofa bed in our rental apartment near the Campo dei Fiori.
- nearly biting it trying to cross the streets around the Piazza Venezia.
Things that got away (this time):
- Lovely knit cardigan from Coin. We couldn’t bring ourselves to try on any knitwear on in 29-degree Celsius heat, unfortunately.
- Silver bracelet from F.lli Peruzzi, near Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Unfortunately the bangles don’t jibe with the laptop.
- Purse from Leather School in Sta. Croce in Florence. We’re just too hard on our leather bags, so we couldn’t justify the expense. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t though… Get yerself a Hermes bag at a fraction of the price…
- Frette jammies on sale on via Nazionale. Everything was either wrong size or wrong style. Sigh.
- Silver anemone necklace from a jewelry shop on the via dei Serpenti. A little too expensive for what it was.
- Ice cream from Crispini. We’re sorry, the wait was just too long.
- Absinthe. Sadly, the Green Devil is still of questionable legality in the US. Otherwise we would gladly have welcomed a new monkey to our back.
That’s it for now, smell ya later Italia!
