Fall travel
Jun. 21st, 2015 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sienamysticIt's fun planning the two weeks my sister and her husband and I are going to spend in Italy in October. But my brain is weird - although I'm still in the happy anticipations stage of things, I opened up the spreadsheet of days and put in the date and time of my return flight and immediately got sad that the trip was over even though it hasn't begun yet. Yeesh.
We'll have roughly two weeks, starting in Venice and moving down to Rome. Most of the places are new to her although not to me, but I've asked for an overnight in Bologna so I can see the terracotta Lamentation group and perhaps the anatomy theater. A friend came back from a long trip and used Bologna as her base and was really enthusiastic about it, and then I watched the BBC's Italy Unpacked show on it, and now a city I never really thought much about before has been put into the trip. It'll also make it easier to get to Ravenna, where we all plan to wallow in mosaics.
The hope was to spend some time in the countryside, but not renting a car is making that more difficult. So we're just hope for a day trip or two from Florence to help with that.
It's been 15 years since I was last in Italy and I'm really eager to go. I'm trying to recapture whatever paltry scraps of the language I had via Duolingo and an old textbook, but I've never been much of a linguist.
We'll have roughly two weeks, starting in Venice and moving down to Rome. Most of the places are new to her although not to me, but I've asked for an overnight in Bologna so I can see the terracotta Lamentation group and perhaps the anatomy theater. A friend came back from a long trip and used Bologna as her base and was really enthusiastic about it, and then I watched the BBC's Italy Unpacked show on it, and now a city I never really thought much about before has been put into the trip. It'll also make it easier to get to Ravenna, where we all plan to wallow in mosaics.
The hope was to spend some time in the countryside, but not renting a car is making that more difficult. So we're just hope for a day trip or two from Florence to help with that.
It's been 15 years since I was last in Italy and I'm really eager to go. I'm trying to recapture whatever paltry scraps of the language I had via Duolingo and an old textbook, but I've never been much of a linguist.
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Date: 2015-06-22 01:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-06-22 03:15 am (UTC)I have some of them from each trip up at Flickr here and here
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Date: 2015-06-22 02:54 pm (UTC)Italy is somewhere I'd love to visit again, with my time my own. I went on a whirlwind of an educational tour in high school, with a couple dozen other Latin students -- and it was fantastic and I was tremendously lucky to get to do that, but it was also of course a heavily chaperoned whirlwind, and we spent a day here and two days there and tons of time on a tour bus and only had very limited opportunities to kick around on our own, because we were a horde of teenagers. Even that was really great, but going as an adult with loved ones and free time and some language skills (however paltry they may be) sounds really glorious. I hope you have a fantastic time!
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Date: 2015-06-23 02:00 am (UTC)