Memoirs: Italy

the next part we toured was Italy.

i was inwardly jumping with excitement in the tour bus. i had my eyes wide open, trying to catch every little detail. the country side was just beautiful... it felt so melancholy and peaceful at the same time....

first we went to Geneva, were we had lunch. our tour guide recommended if we went to a port city to try dishes with seafood, so when time for lunch came, i ordered a sandwich with sea products... it read "Mayonnaise, lettuce, tuna, shrimp on toasted bread." I thought, what the heck, i'll give it a shot, even with the mayo. Never will any other sandwich taste the same. It was the most delicious sandwich I have ever had in my whole life.... and to think it was at a little cheap cafe in Geneva.... I have never liked mayonaise, but homemade mayonaise is a divine creation. Later we saw the port and the aquarium, although we didn't want to spend time at he aquarium. It was more fun watching people and their customs.


At nighttime we went to Venice. The streets there were extremely narrow, and so we momentarily blocked a street adn part of a sidewalk, were an old lady in a bicycle angrily mumbled what I suppose would be bad French, in Italian of course. Our hotel was old and sort of... umm... not the best thing in the world. But the water from the water faucet tasted incredible! Italian water is just unbelievable...

Venice the next day was incredible. At noon we got to ride a gondola. The tour paid for Italian champagne, called "Spumanti". We offered some to our gondoleer and musicians (who were riding in our gondola) but the accordeon player said it wasn't a good idea to drink and be under the sun at the same time. We laughed. He also said "Caldo? NO! Il inferno!" as he poured the stinky Venetian water in his hair.

we saw beautiful balconies with anti war propaganda and geraniums. gosh i love their geraniums....