We went, we saw, we were conquered.
I'm back, more or less. It's been a week today, but I still don't feel like all of me is back here.
I can’t find the adjectives to describe the trip. Movimentato, would be a good Italian word for it, but there's no English
translation that I can think of - maybe full of movement, in every direction.
Rome was crazy, crowded, beautiful and Fellinesque. We
had no luggage for 4 days, the temperature was
tropical, and not the mild kind of tropical either. We sweated like crazy and took 3 showers a day.
My brother drove us down to Puglia, up to Assisi, to Perugia, to Ravenna, and to Padova (all totally worth visiting, more than once). We drove back down to Puglia, then to Rome again.
We walked 6 to 8 hours a day, were never able to sleep
past 4 or 5 am, we saw and did everything we could
possibly see and do every day, and we ate gelato at least 17
out of our 23 days in Italy.
For the first 10 days in Puglia we spent a minimum of 3
hours a day cleaning out the house, and cutting down
ivy and shrubs that had grown all over everything. We paid tax and inheritance bills, we saw friends and we took my brother’s girlfriend all over the small towns around Ceglie, and to Brindisi as well.
When we returned to Puglia for 3 more days, we stayed with my cousins, we ate too much, we took my parents' ashes to
the cemetery, we paid cemetery bills, we visited the two aunts who are still alive, and my brother drove us all over.
Then I stayed in Seattle for 4 days.
I took 800 photographs.
Some of them are here: Rome, Assisi, Ravenna, Padova. Puglia’s not up yet. (The photo above? Just a few folks around the Trevi Fountain.)
It's weird, I never want to travel, then when I do it, I never want to stop.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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