Dos semanas después y la Montana de trabajo que encontré encima de mi escritorio aun no ha bajado! Tal y como ha dicho la Crossty la razón por la que no he reportado es porque la mujer del látigo se aseguó que el relax de las vacaciones me durara muy poco… Ella no lo sabe pero es que aun lo tengo aunque sea muy pero muuuy dentro.
5 ciudades, 5 libras menos (si menos! Yo tampoco lo creía cuando vi la escala una semana mas tarde en el Gym) y 800 fotos después aun sigo con mi alma revitalizada. Ya estoy que me muero de ganas por comenzar a planear las próximas vacaciones. Creo que esto puede convertirse en un vicio.
Rapidito:
1. En Venecia hay un complot! Es demasiado romántica, pequeña, lenta, tranquila, a donde quiera que miras vez parejas de enamorados, cualquier esquina que doblas es digna de una foto, la ciudad te va dando pequeñas sorpresas con cada paso que das.
2. No importa cuantas veces hayas oído que la luz en Florencia (o en Toscaza) es increíble, si nunca has ido no tienes forma de saberlo. Es que no hay una foto que pueda describir lo que le hace la luz del sol a la ciudad al atardecer. Una de las cosas más memorables de mi viaje fue ver caer la tarde en Piazza Michaelangelo, tomando Chianti con mi companera de viaje y unos viajeros que conocimos en el Hostel. I could live in Florence, I fell in love with it.
3. Ah Roma! Casi que Roma parece la tía de Nueva York, llena de gente, de cosas que ver, de cosas que hacer, mas vieja y con mas historia pero igual de vibrante. En Roma visité todo lo que quería visitar y todo fue igual de grandioso y ostentoso como se lo pueden imaginar. El barrio de Trastevere es mas mi ‘cup of tea’ como dicen aquí, esta lleno de artistas locales, de restaurantitos y barsitos que los turistas por concentrarse en los puntos mas comunes ignoran. En Trastevere conocí a Lullo un pintor romano, que me dijo que mi italiano era bellisimo!
4. Se te cae la mandíbula cuando entras en la Catedral de San Pedro en el Vaticano, no importa hacia donde dirijas la mirada la cantidad de detalles es impresionante. Igual de impresionantes son “La Piedad” de Miguelángel, los museos del vaticano y la Capilla Sixtina, pero la mejor impresión?!... Cuando subes al tope de la cúpula de la Catedral de San Pedro a través de unos pasillos que seguro no pasan los códigos de construcción de ninguna ciudad, caminas alrededor de la cúpula en el ANGULO de la cúpula y al final… la vista es como un premio.
5. Y saben que? Todo lo que vi y viví en Italia no se compara a la semana que pase en Barcelona. Si, definitivamente, yo podría vivir allí! Y Barcelona para mi tiene la mezcla exacta de antigüedad y modernidad, tiene a Gaudi, a Picazzo, a Miro, a Dali, un barrio dominicano! Arte, arquitectura, vida nocturna pero Barcelona tiene sobretodo algo que ninguna otra ciudad en el mundo tiene y es lo que le pone la “cherry barquito de helado”, Barcelona tiene a mis amigas del alma, Caro y a Crossty mas todo lo que viene con ellas, la Laia, PP y TT. Lo mejor del viaje, definitivamente fue todo el tiempo que pude compartir con ellas, el ver como son sus vidas ahora que son esposas y una de ellas es mama. Como van con sus parejas y las mujeres en las que nos hemos convertido; más que nada el ver como nuestra amistad sigue intacta y confirmar que así va a ser a pesar de la distancia.
En definitiva, el mejor regalo de cumpleaños que pude haberme regalado!
Nota para nunca olvidar: “Que a pasaaao??” frase celebre de la Laia y “Ubrim portas” mi lección de catalán de una semana!
P.D. Les debo las fotos!!
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
From Latvia to reality
This may sound as a “the dog ate my homework” type of excuse, I cross my heart this is what happened: I had began writing a post about my Landlord going to Latvia, but forgot to save it, when the time came to reboot the computer system at my job, 6:00PM two day ago, all I had done and not saved got lost. Of course I got pissed and threw a quiet fit, I had gotten the memo and had ignored it like many other I receive concerning dress code, no jeans on Fridays and being removed from the summer Friday program if you get to the office late more than once during the summer period, gag, some people have too much time in their hands and too large a salary for sitting around checking a what time you got to the office and not how late you stayed…
Anyway no point in trying to recreate what I wrote, to make the log story short, my Landlord is going to Latvia, I was so ignorant that it must have showed cause he went along saying that Latvia was one of he Baltic States, Northern Europe, near Lithuania, just then a little light flashed in my brain when I remembered from the world cup that Lithuania has a soccer team, and as he mumbled something about someone his dating is from there and that’s the only reason he’s going, the little geak in me wanted to Google it. Where the heck was Latvia! And as it turns out I learned that Latvia is a very interesting place to visit, check it out! I think my landlord will like it, he’s not the tropical-in a hammock-under a coconut tree vacation type (beat’s me, don’t know why), but stop!...
It might interest you to know that this conversation happened not because I am particularly friends with my landlord but because my power keeps getting cut off! Something is wrong with the switch panel that I have waken up in the morning or gotten home at night and not have electricity! This guy is going on vacation for two weeks so he had to fix it before he left, so I started seeing more and more of him and that’s how I found out.
Oh well, good for him! He gets to go to a foreign country, with a date, for two weeks where as the rest of us get stay home and work, don’t cry for him, errr… NY.
Well wish you all a great weekend. Ciao tutti!
Anyway no point in trying to recreate what I wrote, to make the log story short, my Landlord is going to Latvia, I was so ignorant that it must have showed cause he went along saying that Latvia was one of he Baltic States, Northern Europe, near Lithuania, just then a little light flashed in my brain when I remembered from the world cup that Lithuania has a soccer team, and as he mumbled something about someone his dating is from there and that’s the only reason he’s going, the little geak in me wanted to Google it. Where the heck was Latvia! And as it turns out I learned that Latvia is a very interesting place to visit, check it out! I think my landlord will like it, he’s not the tropical-in a hammock-under a coconut tree vacation type (beat’s me, don’t know why), but stop!...
It might interest you to know that this conversation happened not because I am particularly friends with my landlord but because my power keeps getting cut off! Something is wrong with the switch panel that I have waken up in the morning or gotten home at night and not have electricity! This guy is going on vacation for two weeks so he had to fix it before he left, so I started seeing more and more of him and that’s how I found out.
Oh well, good for him! He gets to go to a foreign country, with a date, for two weeks where as the rest of us get stay home and work, don’t cry for him, errr… NY.
Well wish you all a great weekend. Ciao tutti!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Staying Local for Memorial Day WKND
So it’s Memorial weekend in the US and that marks the Beginning of Summer, new Yorkers start wearing white again, YEY! Lots of people take advantage of the long weekend and get the heck out of here! Me? I’m staying local :-( originally me and some friends were planning on going to Washington DC but as it turns out, budget wise nobody was in shape to afford it. Even with the Stimulus Checks we all got from the government. Its ok thought there is plenty to do around here, is Fleet Week which means a lot of beautiful uniformed men walking the streets of NY and you know us girls like those uniforms right? ;-) So me and la Peque have planed our itinerary and as of now is like this:
1. Tonight early drinks with La Peque cause the sun finally came out and it will be 70° F, to us that’s more that’s enough excuse to celebrate.
2. Saturday is Bike day, so we are leisurely biking around the island with three other friends, ending the day with dinner, not sure where.
Sunday morning to early afternoon hanging out with my comadre Lisa and my new aihaditos (those twins are so cute is not even funny)
3. Sunday Night party with our gay friends at a straight bar, yes it is time they give me and La Peque a break! I mean it is really cool to hang out in Chealsea where all the beautiful men like other beautiful men, but what’s in it for us straight girls’, enjoying the view only? We need some action too!
4. Monday morning Memarial Day, brunch and then off to check out the navy boats with all their “uniforms” aboard, and later in the afternoon, back home to Jersey to prepare for Monday grrrr!
Sound good right?? Have a great weekend where ever you are!!!!!
1. Tonight early drinks with La Peque cause the sun finally came out and it will be 70° F, to us that’s more that’s enough excuse to celebrate.
2. Saturday is Bike day, so we are leisurely biking around the island with three other friends, ending the day with dinner, not sure where.
Sunday morning to early afternoon hanging out with my comadre Lisa and my new aihaditos (those twins are so cute is not even funny)
3. Sunday Night party with our gay friends at a straight bar, yes it is time they give me and La Peque a break! I mean it is really cool to hang out in Chealsea where all the beautiful men like other beautiful men, but what’s in it for us straight girls’, enjoying the view only? We need some action too!
4. Monday morning Memarial Day, brunch and then off to check out the navy boats with all their “uniforms” aboard, and later in the afternoon, back home to Jersey to prepare for Monday grrrr!
Sound good right?? Have a great weekend where ever you are!!!!!
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