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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: RichardMEL on October 12, 2008, 04:49:30 AM
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Hi all, I had a text earlier from Lucinda who has arrived A-OK in italy! Tired after a long 24 hours of flying but she still managed to run right out and buy new shoes!!! LOL She says she is already in love with the place. Not sure when she can get online to post so said I'd post this for her :)
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Thanks RM, glad she made it, tell her JP says hi!
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tell her to have a pizza on me...Boxman
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:2thumbsup; hope she is having an incredibly great visit.
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tell her to have a pizza on me...Boxman
You would have to be there in Italy with her to have a pizza on you! :rofl;
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oh you went there KK....
I was thinking it!! But decided not to go there... lol
Have not heard anything further from her but imagine she's sleeping the sleep of the happy and well heeled... (get it-new shoes... well heeled??) and getting ready to enjoy all the place has to offer when the new day dawns in a few hours!!!
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Thanks Melt for the update on Lucinda. I hope she has a fantastic time and forever memories.
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Quick update from Lucinda :) She doesn't have the right leads for her computer but is trying to get them. I told her to go enjoy Italy with hubby rather than worry about logging in! She can log in anytime when she's home! LOL. Anyway she definitely said to say hi to everyone (and yes, I passed on Joe's pizza suggestion :) )
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Thanks Melt for keeping us updated. Has she heard from Kickstart at all?
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Thanks Melt for keeping us updated. Has she heard from Kickstart at all?
not that I'm aware of.
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Hi Everyone.....sorry I haven't been in contact but even after spending hours finding the right leads the reception is absolutely atrocious over here so going to get this off as fast as I can. I am currently in Florence and I climbed up 498 steps today to get into the bell tower at the cathedral. Thought I was going to have cardiac arrest. I have been breaking my diet really, really badly. Pizza, pasta and lots of Gelato but I think I am walking it off pretty much every day. We leave for Bologna tomorrow and the food there is supposed to be terrific. I am in love with Rome. I think it is the most amazing city. The buildings are all extraordinary. Loved the colloseum....it was superb. Have bought eight pairs of shoes, two leather jackets, really weird jewellery, leather baseball cups with silver studs. I bought these brilliant boots and I think the whole look would be great on Sluff's bike!!!! I heard from Kickstart just before I left and she had rehomed two of her dogs and was feeling very down about it. Depending on my accessibility here I will send her a PM and see how she is going. I haven't read many of the posts due to the lack of access but I am going to try and find out if the holiday gift list is out. Want to know who I got so I can buy them something from over here. Anyhow, access is supposed to be better in Bologna so I will try and spend more time from there. We were getting a train to Bologna which is only a 40 minute trip but there is a strike tomorrow and no trains or buses. Getting a driver which is a pretty expensive way to go but the only way to get there.
Anyhow, I will try and get this off before I am kicked off from this end. Love to you all. Thanks RichardM for keeping everyone up to date.
Cindy.xxxxx
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Glad you are having a great time! Sounds wonderful over there, have fun for me, as I know that is one place I will probably never get to see in this lifetime. Good to hear from you, as I said, please enjoy for me. Your "old" buddy Joe ;D
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Oh you lucky lady. Great food and shoes, too! :2thumbsup;
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EIGHT PAIRS!!! So if you turn into a spider you'll have a pair for each leg... ba boom!
and not just shoes.. BOOTS BABY.... (oh I have such an image in my head, but I can't talk about it on a family site like IHD!!! hehehe)
So glad to hear you are having the time of your lives there. That's the way to do it I reckon. spoil... splurge... who knows the next time??
Live's too short.. live for now!
xoxox
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Glad you are having fun Lucinda. :grouphug;
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Thanks Melt for keeping us updated. Has she heard from Kickstart at all?
Sluff she PM'd me today and she's fine. She has been sending updates to the forum quite recently, maybe you missed them as I did.
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Enjoy your trip. And the shoes!
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Hi everyone. Well, I am now in Portofino and it is absolutely superb but ridiculously expensive. A coffee in our hotel cost around 12 Euros which is about Australian $24.00. Glad I don't drink coffee!!! A small pasta dish is about 40 Euros. We are heading down to the village tomorrow but have been told it is not much cheaper down there. As for the shoes.....I have had to buy another suitcase to get them home. This is going to sound disgusting but they are absolutely gorgeous. Black thigh-high boots. Everyone is wearing them over here but I have a feeling I am going to look a little out of place in Sydney. They are in the most devine black kid leather. One thing that is very cheap over here is leather. Bags, shoes and jackets are really reasonable and the leather is superb.
Yes......I have seen the sites as well as the shops. I love the history in Rome. I am going to do another tour of the Vatican when I go back in a week or so. We leave for Milan tomorrow which is a bit scary. Best shopping in the world. The food in Bologna was absolutely superb but the best pasta was the one I had here at the hotel last night. It was called "Spagetti alla Elizabeth Taylor" as she used to order it when she came to this hotel. It was just done with basil and four different kinds of tomatoes - I know - tomatoes are a sin but I just couldn't resist just once. If I drop dead, at least I am in heaven!!!
Moving every couple of days is actually more tiring than I thought but it is still fun. I am not going sightseeing today. Just going to sit out by the pool for the day. We have the most sensational view of Portofino from our room. Anyhow, must sign off now as the connection here keeps dropping in and out. I'll pop back in in a couple of days. Love to you all.
PS..... Hey RichardMel. If you have been texting me at all, I can't use my mobile at the moment. I left my charger in Bologna and won't have it back until I get to Milan tomorrow so sorry if I have inadvertently been ignoring you. xxxxx
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lol no Lucinda.. thought I'd give you a break from my texting...
enjoy your time over there it sounds sensational but... 12 euro for a coffee??? holy crap I'd be glad to be on fluid restrictions with those sorts of prices!! You'd have to do better than that...
My co-worker just came back from italy and he said a coffee would cost him around 1 euro 50 or so in the parts he was in.
So glad you're enjoying yourselves! Darn I'd love to be out by that pool too... got a spare sunlounge for me?!?!?
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Sounds like the perfect trip :2thumbsup;
Here's a youtube clip from an Italian comedy show where an Italian celebrity (according to the title) is wearing thigh high black boots. They sure do look good on her!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7RQDpk_Vo
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So glad you are having such a great time. :clap; But I hope you understand that we are waiting for :pics;
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I'm not sure my heart could take pics of Lucinda in her leather gear.....
:bow;
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Hey everyone....I am now in Venice. WOW!!! That is about all I can say. I love it here. I went crazy at the sales in Milan. Mad all the excuses under the sun to buy up big...never going to be there again. I reckon customs will stop me on the way in and think I cam a commercial buyer with all the shoes I have bought. I think the excess baggage is going to be a bit scary. I will organise the photos when I get home Bajanne. (I have put it in another thread but I am sorry to hear about your graft. Don't blame you for being furious) Communication over here are not the best and I need my very own, and incredibly gorgeous, cyber geek (RichardMel of course) to help me post them properly otherwise Sluff will have Kit's bat out :Kit n Stik;
Anyhow, all the Murano glass over here is superb. We go back to Rome tomorrow and then to Naples and then home. I will be back on Saturday. It is very sad girls but George Clooney has been very evasive. Evidently, according to all kinds of local gossip, he was in Portofino while we were there but I sadly did not see him. Portofino is devine. I didn't bring an Epo shot with me and I am just starting to feel a little tired now but that could also have something to do with the fact we are walking miles each day and climbing thousands of stairs in bell towers and the like. We are about to head downstairs to Cafe Florian. Our hotel is right on St Mark's Square. I am in a bit of trouble with hubby because (as all you dog lovers will understand) I am missing my dogs and I have to try and speak to any hound that walks past me. The dogs are very snooty around this neck of the woods....not that friendly at all. They snarl more than they wag their tales and they all dress in designer outfits and sunglasses. Very Beverley Hills Chihauhua but not nearly as nice!!!
Everything over here is incredibly expensive especially in Milan. Everything is double the Australian dollar before you even start. To watch a movie in your room is about 25 Euro and a car to the train station from the hotel - five minutes away - was around 90 Euro. Even with all our luggage we opted for a normal taxi - 10 Euros. Moving every couple of days is getting a bit exhausting as well but it has been great to see everything. We haven't done the Vatican tour yet so we are doing that tomorrow afternoon for three hours. Anyhow, getting hassled to get going. I will try and pop in later otherwise I will be back on Saturday. xxxx
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Thanks for checking in and I'm glad you are having such a great time. :2thumbsup;
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Fantastic to hear from you Lucinda... I was just thinking today that hadn't seen a post from you in a bit (or a text... did you get your charger back? :) ) so was wondering.
Never say never in terms of coming back!! I still have hopes to return to parts of the US, Asia and Europe. You NEVER know!!!! :) :) :) :)
Maybe you should send some of your shoes and stuff back seperately like freight etc... it might even be a tad cheaper and easy to deal with when flying home!!
Look forward to hearing from you soon.. or when you get home on Saturday :) I know you are having the time of your lives and that is the main thing.. to enjoy.
btw the AUD is crap against every currency just now.. 51 euro cents last time I checked, when it was 60 just a few months ago.. so that is DEFINITELY not helping things... still just enjoy because you deserve it and it's all good :)
xoxoxo
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I have always wanted to visit Venice. Thanks for glimpse!
I also love the murano glass, I have a little bird a friend brought back for me from Italy, it's really cool!
Have a great time!
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Wow, a hotel right on the square. That must be amazing. The whole trip sounds amazing. I can't wait to see the pictures.
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That is impressive, a hotel right on Piazza San Marco. Exciting. I despise the pigeons though.
Really sounds like a great trip.
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I despise the pigeons though.
but they look so good in photos!
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It's just city pigeons I despise. We raised pigeons for eating on our farm and they were lovely birds and I've known a few homing pigeons too but I find city pigeons to be like rats with wings. They poop everywhere and while you're sitting at a nice cafe having something lovely you never know if you're going to have "offerings" in your hair. When I lived in France I never knew whether to look up to avoid the pigeon poop or down to the sidewalk to miss the dog poop. As for the dogs on the beach in Nice...just shoot me now. Revolting, and I don't revolt too easily!
But hey, Pelagia, if (I mean when) I get a transplant, let's go back to Italy and I promise I'll take the photos of you covered in fluttering pigeons.
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Hey, I'm going to Nice in January for a conference. Will there be dogs on the beach then? I hear it will be chilly.
When you get that transplant, I'm ready for Italy. :cuddle;
P.S. When I was an undergraduate I did a summer course on an island in Maine. I had to establish a field site to sample and it turns out it was in the middle of a sea gull nesting area. Those birds pooped and attacked, but they looked good in photographs, too.
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I taught English Literature and Language at the Université de Nice for a year ( 1978-79) and that was the most fun I ever had working anywhere. There were eight of us from around the world and we were chosen from our respective departments (mine was the French Literature Masters Program at U of Toronto) to go there. I used to take the train to Monaco for the afternoon quite often and hang around talking to the gardener in charge of the cacti garden on the hillside in Monte Carlo. I loved that spot and he used to pick fruit from various cacti to let me try.
I taught a translation course with a great guy from Ireland, so brilliant that he'd send me articles to read on Irish Literature from a magazine of which he was the Editor and I could never understand what on earth he was talking about. We had two sections of the translation course and we'd do our prep together but our translations were so completely different due to our different regional vocabularies that we decided to always present both to students and used them as a tool to compare North American and British English.
I lived on Boulevard Tzarevitch right near the Russian onion-domed church but whenever I had to walk home late from the University, I'd walk along the streets that the hookers did business on because it was safer. I'd always say hello and they got used to me. I was very "bookish" at the time and of course they were decked out in thigh-high boots and teeny teeny skimpy skimpy outfits. What an education.
As for the beach.... pebbles (les galets) and dog poop hidden so setting down a towel was always a bit of a dicey gamble. Then there was the raw sewage floating by so I actually never swam there. What I love in that area is the hinterland up behind Nice... Vence and St. Paul de Vence. I'm also very fond of the little fishing village of Cassis, not too far from Marseille.
Oh dear, I need a trip to France right about now. For the food of course!! January will be a bit chilly, but not by Canadian standards. It can also get quite rainy in Nice in winter.
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Hi all just a quick update... I had a couple of messages from Lucinda a few hours ago. She's not feeling so good - I think all the travelling and wonderful times (and shoes!!!) has taken its toll and she wasn't feeling so great so they were just catching a plane for the long journey home. I guess they will be back in Sydney tomorrow late or Friday morning our time. I am sure we will hear from her once she's settled and recovered. She seemed in good spirits just tired so I'm sure we'll hear all about it (and those shoes!!!) in great detail soon :)
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I know how she feels. Can't wait for all thos pictures of her modeling those shoes. :shy; Fully clothed by the way. :)
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Cindy, OMG you are so my kind of gal, SHOES!!!!! I'm so glad your having a wonderful time, and sorry George was busy with me had I known you were visiting we would have made the time for you :-* >:D Hope to hear from you soon. :grouphug;
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Hope she's feeling better soon. :grouphug;
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Oh dear, I need a trip to France right about now. For the food of course!!
Can I go with you? :cheer:
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Oh Sluff don't be modest. I understand premium members get to see ALL the photos... even the sealed section!!!!
:guitar:
(hmm I should upgrade shouldn't I? ;) )
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Oh dear, I need a trip to France right about now. For the food of course!!
Can I go with you? :cheer:
Yep. Of course you can. We'd have a blast, I have no doubt.
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I have not heard from Lucinda since last Wednesday - she would be well and truly back in Sydney so I am somewhat concerned and hope she is doing OK whatever is going on.
Unfortunately knowing her track record I imagine it will be quite an adventure...
Hope you're doing OK Lucinda!
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I have not heard from Lucinda since last Wednesday - she would be well and truly back in Sydney so I am somewhat concerned and hope she is doing OK whatever is going on.
Unfortunately knowing her track record I imagine it will be quite an adventure...
Hope you're doing OK Lucinda!
Lucinda posted a short note in the gift exchange thread yesterday. Hopefully she is just jetlagged! Can't wait to see some photos. :flower;
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Oh.. well... silly me then!!! LOL I didn't see. Thanks for letting me know :)
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Hey everyone. It is 4.32am and I haven't slept a wink. The jetlag really has a hold but I am feeling better now I am at home. The trip back was pretty horrible. We did the 24 hours in one run so I was a bit tired when I got home but I was very excited to see that the secret santas were out but hubby hit me over the head as soon as he saw we on the site and he confiscated my mobile phone and my laptop. I know.....pretty unacceptable...but in fairness I had a bit of a scare back in Rome so he just wanted me to go to the hospital and get checked out. No surprises that my potassium and blood pressure were through the roof. Too many tomatoes in Italy and absolutely everything is drowned in salt.
One thing I was really surprised about was how skinny the Italian women are. I wasn't expecting it with all that pasta but by the end of the trip I worked out it is because they walk everywhere over there and so many women in Italy smoke. A few of the Italian women I spoke to said that they only eat pasta for lunch, they rarely eat dinner and they walk everywhere. But a couple of the women in the shops I spoke to said that they had given up smoking and put on so much weight so they decided to start smoking again. They are heavy, heavy smokers. I think I will stick to the curves rather than take up smoking.
As soon as I am feeling up to it I will download all our photos and post some. The thing I got sick of while I was overseas and moving every couple of days....the girls will understand this.....was the constant blow drying and ironing my hair straight every day. It just seemed like a much bigger chore over there so the hair is now about an inch long but in a very Milanish kind of cut. It's certainly different but very easy wear.
Thanks for your text RichardM....I found my confiscated phone but every time I think about replying it is in the middle of the night when I am wide awake and I think it will wake you up if I text in the early hours. I am a real vampire since I have been home. Sleep during the day and up during the night hours.
I have a confession to make. When I came home our luggage was 56 kilos overweight. Yep....we bought two new large suitcases over there and I came home.....with shoe orders from all my friends...with 32 pairs of shoes. It is disgusting. I bought 15 pairs of new shoes and boots and the rest were for friends and my sister who had put in their orders before I left. They didn't charge us for the excess baggage because they had a light flight coming home and when we got home I confessed all to customs and they were fantastic. They just laughed and told me I wasn't the first person to raid the shoe sales in Milan. They told my husband that he had their sympathies. I hate that people always assume that the man pays for everything for his spend thrifty wife. Bloody hell, when are the blokes going to accept that most women these days do their own buying with their own hard-earned funds. Sorry, I am ranting now but it is even more infuriating when hubby accepts their condolences and casually flings the old liner with a long winded sigh ..."You know how it is mate....happy wife, happy life." Touche to Carrie in Sex in the City. You keep buying those shoes doll.
Anyhow, it was a fantastic trip but I am pleased to be home. I have builders coming on Tuesday to start my new bathroom. I will post before and after shots which of course I am going to be able to do after next week because I am going to have training for a week on my new Apple Mac. I am a techno nightmare when it comes to computers and I haven't got the heart to keep asking RichardMel to resize my pics etc.
Anyhow, I have to catch up now to what everyone has been up to. Can't promise I will post much in the next few days as I am getting the house ready for the builders and it is my study that is getting knocked out to make way for the new bathroom so I have to relocate to another room so a few fiddly things to do over the next few days. It will probably take me a few days to get back into a routine with my dogs and sleep but I will be back up and running very soon. Lots of love for now.....Cindy. xxxx
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thanks for the post Lucinda... and late night textx would always be welcome.. I am a night owl anyway and I could think of worse people to be woken by than you ;) So that would have been fine.. but ty for being considerate :) :) :) xoxoxox
Send me any pics you want resized... no problem to do it for you :)
LOL at 56kg over and 32 pairs of shoes/boots... OMG!!!
I'm glad I didn't put in an order for anything except a fantastic time!!!! :)
xoxox