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AnSionnachRua  ·  4111 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you doing right now?

I'm chatting to my friend on Skype, who is over in Italy and who I'll be joining in a couple of weeks. At the moment, though, I need to finish the last 40% or so of my MA thesis.





lappelduvide  ·  4111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Italy, whoa, awesome! What are your plans?

AnSionnachRua  ·  4111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm just going over to join here in a little village somewhere near Aulla where she's staying with a family she once au paired for. We don't have any real concrete plans other than going on a long walk to some mountain or other. I'm only over for a week and we'll be in a pretty rural area, so I don't think we'll be "seeing" much.

lappelduvide  ·  4111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That sounds fun nonetheless. I've never been to Italy. The food sounds like it's worth visiting alone.

AnSionnachRua  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been to Italy several times and it is worth visiting for the food alone.

lappelduvide  ·  4107 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OOH. Do tell. What were your favorite dishes?

Forever ago, I found a site listing the world's best tiramisu, and I remember that a tiny little place in Sicily was given the highest rating. I've been wanting to try that out.

user-inactivated  ·  4111 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    We don't have any real concrete plans other than going on a long walk to some mountain or other.

I tried to do this when I was in Tuscany and I ended up in some rich person's driveway because it turns out Italy doesn't have any public space left. But the views from the rich houses are really nice.

AnSionnachRua  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, there's a private castle up there, but apparently the views are really nice and both of us just really enjoy long walks (it's about 15k each way).

user-inactivated  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a long day's walk. Sounds like a lovely potential picnic.