Saturday, April 20, 2002 13:15 Weather: Gorgeous, not too hot, sunny Location: Lava-blu laundramat, Rome A spectacular day, but I’ve got a lot of travel to do starting tomorrow morning to get to Greece, so I’m concentrating on errands today. Laundry, booking travel arrangements, and (hopefully) getting a haircut — and maybe a nice wander […]
Moab Is My Washpot, by Stephen Fry. An autobiography of his first 30 years, Moab is at times annoyingly self-indulgent and otherwise brilliant. In case the reader had any doubts, Fry convincingly demonstrates the qualities of a well-educated man of words, with a heavy dose of self-destruction and pathos, but enough self-awareness to take the […]
Friday, April 19, 2002 15:00 Weather: Warm and sunny, hurray! Location: Internet café off Piazza Venezia, Rome Oh dear, lots to get caught up on! How did this happen? Back to Wednesday… Wednesday, April 17 I got up, packed up, had a little of the breakfast Marina had left out for me Tuesday night (a […]
No time to finish to posts now… The internet café is closing and kicking me out. Paul, thanks for your summary!
Note from Paul Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 7:00 am (EST) Location: Brooklyn, New York This is a brief summary of the rest of my trip in Spain, from Kelly’s flight back to Toronto on Tuesday, April 9 until my departure on Sunday, April 14. (Kelly’s description of our trip to Santiago de Compostela, after the […]
20:05 Location: in front of the church in Civita’s square It’s 8pm, and Civita is closing its doors and going home. There are a few residents here–at least, lights on in a few houses suggest there are–but the streets are, for the moment, occupied only by the last of the film crew to pack up […]
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:03 Weather: Sunny morning, but the clouds are moving in Location: Civita square I woke up early and had a shower. I wanted to get out and see the area before the light got too flat. I was also expecting Franco to show up at any minute, hoping for a coffee […]
20:19 Location: Civita B&B dining room, Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy Well, as you’ll gather from the location, I made it. (See the first post for today for an explanation). And what a spot: I’m sitting along in the B&B–Franco the owner and his daughter Elisabetta have gone home for the night, presumably to Bagnoregio, the […]
Monday, April 15, 2002 14:40 Weather: Sunny, and warming up Location: Car 3, Intercity 591, sitting in Florence station Amazing, the power of the written word. Three hours ago I was leisurely finishing the paper over a cappucino, planning to spend the afternoon on some palaces, wandering up the Duomo’s bell tower, etc., when I […]
Ok, looks like I may be able to get to Civita this afternoon. Must go make a phone call to the hotel there. More later…