A Few Things I Learned Last Week
in no particular order:
One cannot go a day without eating gelato whilst visiting Italy.
Europeans don't eat turkey sandwiches, unless they're on an airplane.
Don't believe anyone who tells you you can walk to your hotel carrying your luggage, ie "just follow the road and down a few stairs. It should only take ten minutes." Unless it's opposite day.
Eating dinner at a table outside on a quaint cobblestone street doesn't mean a bus will not drive by 2 inches from your salad. Multiple times.
If you buy tickets for all the public transportation you take, conductors will never check them. If you happen to miss one, they will. And then tell you 50 times the ticket you showed them from the trip out is not valid for the trip back, despite your informing them that the guy at the other end told you it was ok.
Signing up for a specific tour doesn't necessarily mean that's the tour you will end up taking. Especially when the meeting place is by "the newsstand in the piazza across from footlocker."
Don't give money to the people outside churches asking for donations. Giving to the ones inside will make you look less suckerish and more generous.
A really great hotel room does not mean the shower will be big enough for you to fit in.
Pay attention when you are buying tickets from a machine or else you will end up paying 10 dollars more for first class, when there really is no difference between first and second class. Except the price. Which you have now paid. For not paying attention. Jackass.
Silly poses in front of ancient ruins are still fun.
If you decide to walk, it will take forever. If you decide to take a taxi, they will be on strike. If you decide to take a train, you won't be able to find the track. If you take the subway, the platform will be packed with people and you'll panic about finding your ticket because it looks like there are about 6 uniforms looking sternly at people passing until you get closer and realize they are just surrounding a businessman who is lying on the floor with a bloody nose.
People wrote "I wuz here" type graffiti 2000 years ago. Also "Rachel gave me crabs".
One cannot go a day without eating gelato whilst visiting Italy.
Europeans don't eat turkey sandwiches, unless they're on an airplane.
Don't believe anyone who tells you you can walk to your hotel carrying your luggage, ie "just follow the road and down a few stairs. It should only take ten minutes." Unless it's opposite day.
Eating dinner at a table outside on a quaint cobblestone street doesn't mean a bus will not drive by 2 inches from your salad. Multiple times.
If you buy tickets for all the public transportation you take, conductors will never check them. If you happen to miss one, they will. And then tell you 50 times the ticket you showed them from the trip out is not valid for the trip back, despite your informing them that the guy at the other end told you it was ok.
Signing up for a specific tour doesn't necessarily mean that's the tour you will end up taking. Especially when the meeting place is by "the newsstand in the piazza across from footlocker."
Don't give money to the people outside churches asking for donations. Giving to the ones inside will make you look less suckerish and more generous.
A really great hotel room does not mean the shower will be big enough for you to fit in.
Pay attention when you are buying tickets from a machine or else you will end up paying 10 dollars more for first class, when there really is no difference between first and second class. Except the price. Which you have now paid. For not paying attention. Jackass.
Silly poses in front of ancient ruins are still fun.
If you decide to walk, it will take forever. If you decide to take a taxi, they will be on strike. If you decide to take a train, you won't be able to find the track. If you take the subway, the platform will be packed with people and you'll panic about finding your ticket because it looks like there are about 6 uniforms looking sternly at people passing until you get closer and realize they are just surrounding a businessman who is lying on the floor with a bloody nose.
People wrote "I wuz here" type graffiti 2000 years ago. Also "Rachel gave me crabs".
posted by hapabukbuk at
4:59 PM
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A few more to add:
-When you get home everyone will ask what your favorite thing was and this will, oddly, surprise you
-Even though you spent 24 hours a day together for 7 days straight, you'll still want to hang out with your travelling companion three days after getting home ;)
I'd do it all over again Ltan!! Just maybe not the walk to the hotel in Sorrento. love ya, snixy
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