We are in Milano. I enjoy it very much-- it feels good to be somewhere more low-key and local (and cheap). We stayed the night at the very fine Hotel Alba-- talking with the owner made me realize how much I missed hanging out with 30-year-old chinese guys.
So here is a summary of our adventures since leaving the crew:
Patras, GR: awkward conversations with grocers and fantastic tomatoes. Sipping frappés to cheesy chiptunes in a café full of old men. A big curvy woman nude beneath transparent white dress passes through, trailing her faithful little husband.
The ferry to Bari: very surreal moon reflections over mediterranean ocean, ridiculous italian television and lonely windwhistling on the solarium. A man on Bari cobble-street really wants us to see the cathedral. Very beautiful Basilica San Nicola of Bari. Finished all Tomatoes.
Roma: Skinny dejected twenty-somethings in gladiator suits comb the crowd outside the Colosseo. Hot hot hot, stroll through the big elliptical wonder-place. Some statues even had noses. Imaginings of what one of these events must have been like. They took their brutality seriously. Magical kisses at Fontana Trevi. Total assault to the eyesockets in the Vatican, Kira couldn't enter on account of her shortshorts (and naughtiness, and not saying her prayers) but I brought out some cloudy salty holy water and blessed her.
Bern, Switzerland: Real nice kids on the train with hilarious english skills discussed our respective romances, O.C. California, Science education, Ramen bar in Bern Westside mall. We tried the ramen, it was nice. Super-early-morning edition: Bern is an Alladin's cave of hyperexpensive pastries. Will work for chocolate. A pious spacetime visit to Einstein's apartment. Haircut, raspberries & more kissing in beautiful swiss highwayside forestlet.
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