ciao bella.
haha i was stunned for a moment when the blogger homepage loaded and it was all in italian.
anyway, hello from italy guys! it's freezing here; the receptionist said it was -8 deg today but i don't think it was that cold. still cold enough that you don't feel your toes anymore if you stand still without moving for more than five minutes though. but it's been really cool so far! although we did have to walk a lot. but i guess it's pretty much worth all the walking because we've seen really beautiful sights so far, and pictures just don't do them justice. just today we went to pisa and did typical touristy things at the leaning tower. my younger sister tried to eat the tower and my older sister and my mum did the propping up the tower thing. but really the pictures don't show you the majesty of everything. you have to be here to see the sights in all their splendour.
but it's really tiring walking and walking and because it's so cold it just makes everything so much worse. my feet threaten to run away everytime i slip into my boots because they pinch my toes and are much too flat to provide much support at all. plus the romanticised notions of cobblestone streets? throw that all away because all it gives you is a very high probability of a sprained ankle.
and meals here are crazily expensive every single meal we've had so far exceeds sgd100. it's so bad that when we get a bill of 45 euros we immediately think "hey that's really cheap" even though that's more than sgd90 for 6 plates of pasta. but the pasta is really good! except the aglio olio. i've tried that twice here and both times they were served up dripping with oil and tasted of nothing. but the ravioli is good, and so is the tortellini. pizzas are pretty decent too but i miss the crazy overload of flavours back home with pizza hut pizzas especially the ones with cheese stuffed in the crust. here all you ever get are skinny pizzas which are nice and all but somehow lacking. i'm getting awfully tired of italian food though.
other than all that it's been really fun so far. (: cannot wait for venice and then paris and then london. but i'm going to have to find some place with internet for the 22nd/23rd/24th though, to do the awful GAPS thing. results on the 22nd too, but i don't really want to think about it.
okay, off to go do random stuff before sleeping so we can catch an early train for venice tomorrow. must find souvenirs!! haven't bought anything from rome or florence or pisa which is baaaaaaad.
anyway, happy belated birthday chin, if you ever read this!
rab don't steal sam away and sam i wanted to get you an apron/chef's hat but we walked away too fast for me to ask for prices haha! there was this really nice apron with types of pasta all over it. but then again we got you an apron for your birthday so maybe i'll just look for something else.
liyun sorry i didn't reply your sms but i'm not in singapore already anyway haha! maybe we can go out after i'm back on the 31st.
okay anyone i missed? i don't think so. alright bye!
music: wedding dress; taeyang
Labels: thoughts, trips
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