days 3 through 5 in Verona

Hello,

i will make this short as i have other things i want to be doing besides writing. so here it goes on wednesday we went to the foothills of the alps, and to a natural land bridge it was amazing, it was a little warm but still beautiful and green and lots of people picnicking and napping. that night fra made us some rice she learned to make in india but with risotto rice so it did not turn out the way she had planned, and dun dun dun we opened the easter egg she received from her mother it is a large egg (larger then the ones you can get in the UK) and inside is a prize, my mother will remember this as she brought one home for me when i was about 7 from Italy.

the following day we got up and toured some churches in the area and spent some time by the river. That night we went to the bar Malacarne, which translates to the bar of bad meat. Or an old butcher shop to be precise! it was a little bit eerie being a vegetarian in the meat shop especially when we went into the basement for a musical video show thing. it was pomo art at it's finest. so i can assure you that pomo art in Italy is the same as in the US, sometimes a little bit crap when you aren't in the mood for it!

on friday we got up ate some breakfast and went back to bed, then in the afternoon we went to the lake about a 40 minute car ride away and walked along the beautiful lake walk, on the way there we listened to some Punjabi music, it's the music played at weddings in india! then fra's mom came home, she works out of town and just comes home for the weekend, and made us some tortellini and then we at the "colomba" which translates to dove, it is a type of cake with candied oranges that is eaten around easter time, good stuff.

so today, who knows, maybe not so much.

hope all is well with everyone, the photos will be amazing:)


xoxo,
christie

I made it to Verona

Hello Hello,

Well the blog is back in action, thank god. so now there will be no mass emails but extracts from life about traveling. so i made it to Francesca's home on monday. the flight was a late one, it didn't leave until 8pm out of Prestwick airport in Scotland. And i landed at about midnight, so it was a late night. and then last night we went to a tango-trans concert which was pretty amazing, so many people know the tango here it is amazing. it is a beautiful dance, that came from the brothels of brazil, i believe, you will need to google it.

well anyway after not rising until noon on tuesday i ate some breakfast then we took the bus into the city centre, where we stopped by Juliet's balcony, and i had the opportunity to touch the tit of Juiliet but i chose not too, maybe when i can have a good photo taken of it:) you do this for good luck. so after that we wandered around town and fra bought a new pair of sandals, she destroyed her's from living in india for the last 4/5 months. so new sandals then we went to the famous catherdral duomuo beautiful church, i also bought a ticket which allows me to visit the 5 famous cathedral's within Verona, so good stuff. I also enjoyed some real italian gelato. I got two scoops rice and cinnamon, riso and cadella or something like that. That night we went to visit Fra's Argentinain friend for dinner, and she made us pasta primivera, excellent.

so today we will probably go to the mountains, as there is a celebration in town for the american's liberating the italian's from the german's during the second world war so everyone is off from school and the like. but as i have found out it is not a proper holiday....(shrug). So that is what is happeing here in Italy. So ciao ciao:)

xoxo,
christie

bye bye scotland

well everyone it is my last day in scotland and i am franticaly typing and gathering and throwing and all those other verbs. so i went to glasgow on saturday where i went to the barras, which is the largest flea market i have ever seen i bought a crepe and a tea towel-ooohh. so that was good times, i also went to the national scottish art fair on saturday. it was a bit of a let down, image hundreds of people milling about it a tent in 50 degree weather outside but inside the tent bright white lights and no windows. let's just say i wanted to get out of there. There was nothing really in my price range which i was upset about but oh well. later that day i headed to edinburgh castle for the free castle day-hurray, no more castles please:) i can't name them all but there were lots! I even got on the canon and had my photo taken, so i will be printing those once i get back home.

on sunday i went to a horribly girly french film and then on to portobello where i walked along the seaside and had my first can of irn bru. oh it's a wee can a ginger, lassie. if you can translate that u's lucky. then on to my friend chantel's house for a sushi party. good times. now today i am meeting my old coworkers for one last luch and then off to the airport for my flight to milan to visit francesca.

xoxo,
christie

here's an old message that i saved to blog

Well hello there everyone. Christie here just letting you know what’s going on here in Edinburgh. Well since my last blog totally didn’t work except the title. I don’t know. I think maybe my blog is too big. So perhaps I will need to create another one or delete a bunch of stuff of this one who knows. Well anyway just wanted to let you all know what has gone on the last little while.

I joked to Rachelle 2 weeks ago, oh I’m going to win us tickets to this music show, called Soul Britannia All Stars. The first half of the show was Northern Soul and the second half was Funk. So it was basically all these people who were popular in Britain during the late 50s through to the 70s. The groups who played were all great. It was a smaller audience, like 100 people so it was a nice concert. The following week I went to Glasgow for a Graystone Gig, you can check them out on Myspace. They are my co-worker Katy’s husband’s band. The same week on the Friday, I went to the play Monks, about 3 Glaswegians going to the top of this mountain to a monk who performs miracles. They went because the son or brother or whoever has schizophrenia so they were hoping the monk could cure him. It was a strange play of Glaswegian accents that in the end wasn’t great, but hey I stood in line for an hour to get a free ticket, so that was cool.

As far as this week goes, well my friend Bethany had her going away party on Tuesday, and then she flew away on her 4-week holiday around Europe, and then back to Minnesota. So I was sad to see her go but happy she was doing some travelling before she went back. Which brings me to my next point, if you have any suggestions on where I should go in Europe, speak know or forever hold your peace. I will probably be back in Europe if I can help it once again in the future but who knows when that will be.

Well I am going to the Miso Funky Market and then over to the Filmhouse for We are All Christs. A polish film about a now sober father and the son that had to take care of him. So that’s the scoop here in Scotland. Hope all are well

xoxo,

christie