Archive for Category: "italy"
A Spectacle in the Uffizi Courtyard
I ended up standing in line at the Uffizi museum in Florence for two hours. My boyfriend Jarl and I were in the line for people who had not thought ahead to make reservations. I held our place in line while he went to get us chocolate gelato, which dripped down my chin while I ate it
Eating Horse Meat in Parma
When I first moved to Parma, I thought I’d died and gone to food heaven. It was unbelievable. I stuffed my face with torta fritta (fried bread) and prosciutto ham. I drowned pasta in parmesan cheese. I devoured countless kinds of gelato, gorged on tiramisu, sloshed glass after glass of red wine down my neck, skipped glibly from restaurant to restaurant to sample new pasta combinations.
When in Rome, Eat Prosciutto
On our last afternoon in Rome my boyfriend and I went for a walk from our hotel to the Villa Borghese park. On our way to the park we stopped in a deli to look for biscotti to bring home.
Getting Lost in Florence
I have a gift for getting lost. Or all the maps in the world are wrong. This includes the map I had of Florence. I thought I’d followed it perfectly. I scrutinised the tiny streets, turned it the right way, the left way, asked other people for confirmation
4 Tips for Safe Couchsurfing
My first Couchsurfing experience didn’t go well. I was naïve, stupid and didn’t listen to my instincts. To begin, a brief explanation: Couchsurfing is a site where you can connect with people all over the world to a) get free accommodation by staying at their place or b) to meet up with people in general for a day/afternoon/whenever, in almost any place across the world
