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dramaturgy) wrote2007-04-26 06:10 pm
dramaturgy) wrote2007-04-26 06:10 pm
"What could it be, WHO IS FLYING THIS THING? ... Oh right, that would be me. Back to work."
So, I already took a couple pictures here in Athens. Tonight (Thursday) is going to be a night to veg out and do NOTHING but internet stuff. Probably mostly to do with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
leviosarpg. No Dante or Brancacci Chapel or Brunelleschi or whatever in sight. I am here at the beautiful Athens Golden City Hotel and am doing fantabulous thank you. And do you know why?
Because I found Chee-tos. Honest to god Greek Chee-tos. I am in heaven.
Anyway, a week ago on Thursday I was very early for class and so took some pictures. I was waiting outside Santa Trinita (well, okay, actually across a tiny, tiny piazza from Santa Trinita) and... just started snapping.
Okay, so I'm already lying. This is from the Mercato Centrale (Central Market) where I ate the cow intestines. Here's the skinny on the cow intestines, although I already told Joe: it's a traditional Tuscan preparation. It's called lampredetto (I'm 99% sure I'm spelling that right) and it's cooked in spices and stuff so it's really good. Despite a few, um, slithery fatty parts. x_x You can eat it in a stew or a sandwich, although I'm sure they have it in other ways, too. I didn't even know what it actually was until I'd eaten half of my sandwich. I thought it was just beef.
A Florentine school bus.
This is a monolithic column, antique, and given to (I think) Lorenzo de Medicis because Medicis were awesome. (Actually, Medicis were kind of ridiculous in that REALLY COOL WAY that all good historical figures are.) Tuesday we went to the Medici Palace and got to see a bunch of stuff. It's. Extravagant.
It might be a little bit hypocritical of me, but I hate tourist groups. It's like. GAH. Okay, I can appreciate wanting to stop and take pictures of the Duomo or something, it's a beautiful building, but forty people stopping on the sidewalk to do it all at once? Seriously? Not everyone who's in Florence is a tourist. Some of us live and study here. Not that I don't do my fair share of tourism, but come on. :\ It's frustrating to be nearly hit by a bus because you had to go into the street to go around your third tourist group so that you weren't late for class at Ellen's. (Although if Ellen would just have class at Linguaviva, it wouldn't be a problem.)
A police car! Remember, there are four police forces at work in Florence. That would never wash in London, they can barely manage having two.
Palazzos! Palazzos often had shops on the ground floor while the family lived above.
Meh. The next Janet!Paper is on Palazzos, but it's meant to be written as a narrative so it's not really a paper. LOVE.
leviosarpg. No Dante or Brancacci Chapel or Brunelleschi or whatever in sight. I am here at the beautiful Athens Golden City Hotel and am doing fantabulous thank you. And do you know why? Because I found Chee-tos. Honest to god Greek Chee-tos. I am in heaven.
Anyway, a week ago on Thursday I was very early for class and so took some pictures. I was waiting outside Santa Trinita (well, okay, actually across a tiny, tiny piazza from Santa Trinita) and... just started snapping.
Okay, so I'm already lying. This is from the Mercato Centrale (Central Market) where I ate the cow intestines. Here's the skinny on the cow intestines, although I already told Joe: it's a traditional Tuscan preparation. It's called lampredetto (I'm 99% sure I'm spelling that right) and it's cooked in spices and stuff so it's really good. Despite a few, um, slithery fatty parts. x_x You can eat it in a stew or a sandwich, although I'm sure they have it in other ways, too. I didn't even know what it actually was until I'd eaten half of my sandwich. I thought it was just beef.
A Florentine school bus.
This is a monolithic column, antique, and given to (I think) Lorenzo de Medicis because Medicis were awesome. (Actually, Medicis were kind of ridiculous in that REALLY COOL WAY that all good historical figures are.) Tuesday we went to the Medici Palace and got to see a bunch of stuff. It's. Extravagant.
It might be a little bit hypocritical of me, but I hate tourist groups. It's like. GAH. Okay, I can appreciate wanting to stop and take pictures of the Duomo or something, it's a beautiful building, but forty people stopping on the sidewalk to do it all at once? Seriously? Not everyone who's in Florence is a tourist. Some of us live and study here. Not that I don't do my fair share of tourism, but come on. :\ It's frustrating to be nearly hit by a bus because you had to go into the street to go around your third tourist group so that you weren't late for class at Ellen's. (Although if Ellen would just have class at Linguaviva, it wouldn't be a problem.)
A police car! Remember, there are four police forces at work in Florence. That would never wash in London, they can barely manage having two.
Palazzos! Palazzos often had shops on the ground floor while the family lived above.
Meh. The next Janet!Paper is on Palazzos, but it's meant to be written as a narrative so it's not really a paper. LOVE.
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and I knew someone in NYC that would jump into tourist's pictures and make obscene gestures... in such a way that they wouldn't know it was there until they developed the pictures. lol. Really amusing. It's fun to screw with the tourists. (gotta have some way of keeping yourself sane around them.)
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