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A New WET Year

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Off to a specatular start for the new year if you’re a fish. This is becoming a trend for me as New Years in Edinburgh last year was so wet that I went and watched a movie… now there’s an idea… I had something somewhere that mentioned there were english movies – could be interesting to watch my own language subtitled…

New Year’s Eve found me wandering. I post somewhat sporadically to a forum called Virtual Tourist- more often I just use the trip tips for research on things to do in a given place. There had been plans to try to get a New Year’s Eve gathering of travelers in Rome that night. The plan was to meet near the Trevi Fountain around 10:30pm. I wandered through there about 8:00pm. [read on]

Bumpy Streets, Aching Feet and oh my only Day Two

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Okay, so I didn’t accomplish nearly as much today as I figured I would but it was a nice day.

Last night when I got back, I met one of my (barely) room-mates, a guy (I swear) whose name was Tito (???what it sounded like???) from Belgium. Nice guy, we talked a bit. I could tell the language barrier was there as the conversation would take wild turns as he misinterpreted my comments. [read on]

Doing it like the Romans?

Saturday, December 31st, 2005
First off, if you see any weird characters or out of place symbols, blame the Euro keyboard for having characters I'm not used to in the place where I'm used to characters I need. I had less trouble with UK ... [Continue reading this entry]

And Then There Were Two…

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
I held off on mentioning this partially because I've been slam-busy and partially waiting for things to firm up, but I'm no longer going to Italy completely solo. I'll still have some me time, but part of the trip, Brandy, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Sanity has LEFT the building!

Monday, November 7th, 2005
Well, if you've talked to me or e-mailed with me in the past month or so, you've probably suffered through a good deal of trip talk, i.e. "Should I stay or should I go now." More than a month ago, I ... [Continue reading this entry]