Under the Tuscan Something-or-Other
Sep. 15th, 2007 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsSo, this Italy thing. At first I didn't talk about it because it was so, so far away that it wasn't real. Then I didn't talk about it because I had other squee and drama in my life.
Well, now it's only a couple of weeks away and very, VERY real. I'm going to Italy! Whee!I'm going to be in close proximity with my mother for over a week! Aiee!
It's the Tauk tour Rome/Capri/Amalfi Coast.
Because I am going to try to travel with only one carry on - the Barbie Memorial Suitcase - I'm packing a lot of stuff that is going on a one-way journey to make room for the things I buy. Battered books. Ragged washcloths. Old undies. (This is behind the sudden bra hunt; the old yoga tops I've been wearing are going to be ditched.) Hey, I get to do the Sunday 7 half the world away!
Mother is fretting a great deal about all the various ways she's heard about how purses can be stolen, stabbed, or otherwise ruined. I just got a tote-style purse for 50 cents at a yard sale; I almost hope it'll get trashed.
And I've been ordering clothes. Thanks to Just My Size, I have 4 tops, 2 skirts, and a pair of pants, all mix-and-match. I'm a little wierded out over that in that I thought I had ordered *4 skirts,* but one skirt is backordered and the trousers were apparently mismarked. However, they fit, so I'm not going to make a fuss over it.
Next up, trying to find decent shoes. Quickly.
Although I've rented "Learn Italian" tapes, I have discovered from staggering through France and Germany that all you *really* need to know are the following. So I'm asking - how do you write/pronounce:
One
Two
Three
Four
Yes
No
Please
Thank you
Excuse me
I do/don't understand
I would like
Considering this is Italy, it might also help to know "Move that hand or lose that arm."
Also, we will have free time at the following places. We'll have guidebooks and I'll be looking online, but I would like to know the sort of thing that won't be on the guidebookLike yarn shops or where the guidebook will steer you wrong.
Positano
Isle of Capri
Rome (the hotel's at Via di porta, so wherever is suggested has to be walkable/transportable from there)
Well, now it's only a couple of weeks away and very, VERY real. I'm going to Italy! Whee!
It's the Tauk tour Rome/Capri/Amalfi Coast.
Because I am going to try to travel with only one carry on - the Barbie Memorial Suitcase - I'm packing a lot of stuff that is going on a one-way journey to make room for the things I buy. Battered books. Ragged washcloths. Old undies. (This is behind the sudden bra hunt; the old yoga tops I've been wearing are going to be ditched.) Hey, I get to do the Sunday 7 half the world away!
Mother is fretting a great deal about all the various ways she's heard about how purses can be stolen, stabbed, or otherwise ruined. I just got a tote-style purse for 50 cents at a yard sale; I almost hope it'll get trashed.
And I've been ordering clothes. Thanks to Just My Size, I have 4 tops, 2 skirts, and a pair of pants, all mix-and-match. I'm a little wierded out over that in that I thought I had ordered *4 skirts,* but one skirt is backordered and the trousers were apparently mismarked. However, they fit, so I'm not going to make a fuss over it.
Next up, trying to find decent shoes. Quickly.
Although I've rented "Learn Italian" tapes, I have discovered from staggering through France and Germany that all you *really* need to know are the following. So I'm asking - how do you write/pronounce:
One
Two
Three
Four
Yes
No
Please
Thank you
Excuse me
I do/don't understand
I would like
Considering this is Italy, it might also help to know "Move that hand or lose that arm."
Also, we will have free time at the following places. We'll have guidebooks and I'll be looking online, but I would like to know the sort of thing that won't be on the guidebook
Positano
Isle of Capri
Rome (the hotel's at Via di porta, so wherever is suggested has to be walkable/transportable from there)
