21 posts tagged “dinners”
Friday night I met up with Marisol and we went to a yarn shop I'd heard about on Ravelry. I bought some nice yarn, some circulars, and some double point needles, and then we met up with Natalia and Sofia for hardrock cafe burgers followed up with a huge chocolate brownie that we shared. Natalia is going back to Ecuador on sunday, so it was kind of a farewell dinner for her. Afterwards Marisol and I checked out the event at my internship -Ulysses Borgia, a baritone singer. He was really good although it made me giggle a bit because he reminded me of Fabio, the most beautiful man in the Cosmos, LOL.
Marisol bought some pretty varigated blue wool and i showed her how to knit in Piazza Navona while we waited to see Guiseppe and Carla.
We had dinner at a pretty nice place called Motecarlo, and it was really nice to catch up with them. They got engaged! although because of the paperwork, Carla is going to have to return to Brazil for 20 days, and then come back which sucks.
When we first got to the yarn shop it was closed, so we wandered around Campo Di Fiori, and found a pretty cool exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci's machines, which was fun. I got some pretty groovy pictures actually:
We also arranged to have dinner at Carla and Guiseppe's house on monday night, which is going to be hectic, since Anna arrives early on tuesday morning!
Today I went to buy her a towel, and bought possibly the most ugly, lurid thing you've ever seen, but there was nothing else open. It's drying hanging out of my bedroom window and goodness knows what my neighbors think of my taste in towels, since my own towel is a really brightly coloured kid's one!
Tonight we're supposed to be going to go for Mexican food for Marisol's friend, Gina's birthday, but we haven't heard from her so we might end up staying in, which I'd prefer to do actually as I'm still tired, and the next few days are going to be busy.
Anyway that was about it this weekend.
Ciao voxies!
R
yesterday we had a farewell for one of the first friends I made in Roma, Alessandra. She is going for an interview with a university in Milano, and afterwards returning to her home in Venezuela. I'm going to miss her a lot.
The food at the restaurant was quite nice but I wasn't very hungry. What else? that's about it really, our housemates were supposed to have arrived last night, but they must be heavy sleepers because I didn't hear a sound out of their room. Maybe they didn't turn up afterall?
Phew! I never knew how exhausting doing nothing could be!
Friday night I met the girls for epic burgers and coronas from Hard Rock Cafe - can you believe they still didn't have my tshirt available?! they asked me to call before we go in next friday to confirm first, eyeroll.
Then on saturday, we WERE going to go to the vatican but the line was just incredible and since we have plenty of time we decided to screw that idea for a joke and come back with prebooked tickets from the internet. We ended up getting gelato from the huge place near the pantheon and wandering around the area near villa borghese since the metro shut down and we ended up in some random place. On the plus side we saw the cutest pink smart, so high five to that.
We came home, had a nap, and then went out with Alessandra and some of the other girls for dinner near the Colosseum. We had pizza, antipasto misto, and the most awesome tiramisu - we waited over half an hour for a table but the food was really nice. I want to take Anna there when she arrives next week.
After that we went home, and today, Sunday, I skyped with mum, dad, and the beast, and then with Anna, planning her trip. We decided to go to Paris for our one weekend for her visit, and hopefully I can book those on monday or tuesday.
After that we moved the extra bed from M's room into my room, cleaned the kitchen, bathroom and did laundry, randomly rearranging furniture. Good times. Now I'm relaxing with a Moretti, although I don't know whether we are going to end up going to the Cappuccin crypts today or sometime during the week.
for the first time in a few weeks, we did not go on an epic journey into the wilds of Italy, instead we stayed in Rome. On sunday we slept almost all day, and then in the afternoon, got the bus to the area near the Pantheon for awesome gelato - in my case, mandarin and Paradiso Primavera (you can make a wild stab as to what was in it, I certainly couldn't figure it out, even having tried it). Then we found the cool leather shop with the leather bags and diaries that I like so much, but as per last time, I hadn't brought my actual diary to compare sizes! eyeroll!
so instead we wandered over towards piazza navona and watched a bit of spanish dancing and listened to a bit of music before meeting up with Alessandra and co.
We went for aperitifs down this tiny alleyway in a place called the Library, it was such a cute little place, maybe I can go there for dinner with Anna!
afterwards we had nutella crepes and then after watching some more Flamenco, went home
Okay voxies, Ciao a presto,
R
I just had to post today - couldn't miss the epic date combo!
Today after school Carla's boyfriend Giuseppe brought their new puppy, Borgo, to visit! he was just about the cuuuutest thing i had ever seen, only 2 months old, he was so fluffy and still kind of bendy, like his bones were too new! he was like a teeny tiny sack of cuddly cement, and apart from licking my face, he chewed on everyone's fingers and my tiffany necklace. Cutest thing ever.
once we tore ourselves away from the cutest dog on the planet, Marisol and i went for burgers and coronas at the hardrock cafe, and then for ice cream from San Crispino near the Trevi - I got honey and raspberry. Honestly that honey flavour could make you cry, that's how good it tastes.
We walked down to via del corso, then along to the spanish steps and got the metro home from there... I can tell I'm going to be sooo exhausted tomorrow, can't believe it's my second last day of school so soon! how did this happen!
tomorrow we're supposed to be seeing the Proposal (in italian) after school. Should be fun!
ciao voxies,
xox
R
even when I do nothing here, it feels like I've done heaps!
today I skyped with la famiglia (including Willum of course) and went grocery shopping. I made lunch, and then walked to the pharmacy in the 30 C + heat (it was closed). After I got back, I had a long nap, and then my flatmate Marisol and I went to dinner at the hardrock cafe which was pretty cool. They had a guitar signed by everclear, and some groovy stained glass windows..
Tomorrow it's back to school again! it's a monday so who knows how many new people we'll have turn up!
Ciao voxies,
R
Hmm what did I do this week? it was nice actually, monday after class was gelato in piazza di spagna, followed by a walk to the coloseum, followed by dinner at a restaurant called 'thank god it's friday' - it took me about 10 mins staring at the name (it was in italian) before I got it, and then I giggled to myself.
What else? another dinner on friday, since heaps of my class were leaving, boo! we had dinner in piazza navona and it was really fun, since one of the girls only speaks portuguese or italian, we had to speak in italian all night, which was fun, we had sangria and pizza (god I'm sick of pizza. It's all absolultely amazing but I'm soooo tired of it. I could murder a huge hurricanes cheese burger with avocado or a hogsbreath steak with avo on the side...)
then today my flatmate and I (Marisol, the new one from mexico - she's so cute, she brought beautiful frosted shotglasses from her home town for us, they have the famous aquaduct or her town in a clear glass design on the side!) went to capri!
woohoo! I went
with jas but we missed out on buying handmade shoes there and were
really disappointed, so this time I went back and got some! its so
much fun, you tell them the type of base you want (high heel or flat)
and then you pick the design of the straps you like from out the front
of the store, and then you pick the leather colours you prefer, and
they fit them for you - right there while you wait! they fit your foot
perfectly, because they measure your foot to fit the straps! here's some pics of the ones I chose:
I ended up getting two pairs, and then we went up on the funicular (a kind of train that goes up the side of the hill to the main part of Capri) and wandered around and shopped a little. Then we got a teeny tiny little bus to Anacapri, which is the top part of the island. The bus driver was such a lunatic on the way up, swerving around all these hairpin turns and blaring his horn and almost scraping the mountain on one side and a 2 km drop down to the sea on the other!
At a little cafe place in Anacapri had the most amazing Caprese sandwiches (tomato, basil and mozzarella) - of course CAPRI makes awesome CAPRESE sandwiches! but damn if it wasn't one of the best sandwiches I've ever eaten anywhere!
ha ha, I abosolutely loved this sign - because of course I came all the way to Capri for Real English Tea and Butter Toast!
The holiday house that used to belong to Aristotle Onassis (of Jackie O fame) is also up there, but I couldn't remember which one it was.
After that we went back down and had our last fitting for the shoes and then got the ferry home. It's a really long trek from Rome to Capri (1.5 hours on the train to Naples, then a 40 minute ferry to Capri) but it's totally worth it, I absolutely love that place! Especially the shoes!
well that's it from me!
Baccio Abbraccio! (kisses and hugs)
R
I am so damn exhausted! jesus. Every day I sightsee in this godforsaken country is like a marathon!
haha, yes, I'm somewhat tired, I walked home about 2-3km after a day of wandering around in the 30°C+ heat, so I might have gotten a little delusional! At the time it seemed like a better idea than waiting in the broiling sun for the bus, but that might have been the heat talking! hee hee!
Speaking of funny, check out the crazy old building I saw on my walk home, and this funny street sign!
So! quick update with what I've been doing!
Friday I ditched class in the afternoon and had some goodbye drinks with some of the people leaving, and then on saturday night I went out to Isola Tiberina, which is a tiny island in the middle of the tiber river, which has all these amazing outdoor restaurants and clubs. Lisa and I actually went to her hotel in the afternoon and swam in the pool, before getting ready in her room. We managed to get lost on our way to the Tiber and arrived having gone via The World, haha. It was so weird, there was this embassy building on our little jaunt that had these 2 armed guards standing out the front. They were dressed in army fatigues with Italian flag badges, combat boots, and they were carrying machine guns, all fairly normal, right? but get this - they were wearing green felt homburgs like those in Switzerland! most random thing ever!
Anyway! Isola Tiberina!
First we had dinner there and then afterwards we had wine and an apple flavoured shisha pipe, which I'd never done before! I lost my shisha virginity! - that particular bar was kind of turkish themed and had cushions and stuff.
It was really fun! the second club, an irish themed one near piazza navona was kind of awful though, just listen to this story:
We arrived and the bouncer said it was 10 euros entrance fee each. We all said no, since there were about 12 of us, and we thought it was too expensive. He then said, ok, I'll charge you 20 euros all together, as a tip for me, and let you all in. So we said yes, although it ended up being me paying 5 euros and a lot of people paying nothing. ANYWAY. seedy enough yes?
it was super crowded inside, like outrageous and super hot, and it turned out that the place was serving last drinks in less than 20 minutes. So we all scrambled to get served, and as I was at the bar, an English bloke who was clearly a bit tipsy asked me where I was from and told me we were going to get thrashed in the Cricket this weekend. I told him I didn't really care since i'm not interested in cricket, and that my parents are english anyway so it doesnt even bother me who wins in the slightest. He then proceeded to compliment me and asked where we were going next. I said I didn't know since i was just following my friends and he said if I was to tell him, would it be a fair trade off to purchase me a drink?
he then leaned forward to tell me something (I thought) and kissed me on the cheek, so I told him off, although he was totally harmless. Shortly after this, his girlfriend turns up! and gives me a huuuuge (totally justified) filthy! and so I turned around and just walked off, I could not believe his nerve, chatting me up while she was in the bathroom! EW!
but even worse, it turns out (after some girls in my group spoke to her) that someone had indecently assaulted her on the way to the bathroom, (then she came back to find her bf chatting up some random chick) AND, it was their first night in Rome, and the following day was their 1 year anniversary! That poor girl! I felt awful for her, and what a toolbag of a boyfriend! I told her about the Island and said she should go there if she wanted to do something romantic, so at least I somewhat redeemed myself!
so anyway, I then got the nightbus home which was crazy, the driver was a lunatic and went some crazy route at about 70 kmph but I got home in the end, at about 3:45am I think? The streets here feel pretty safe at least!
Anyway. Today I met Lisa (the friend from school who's leaving) and we were going to visit the vatican, but it was closed today! so we decided to visit villa Borghese, but we got there at 1:30 and the next available tour was at 5pm since the others were sold out! so we went to the Zoo inside the park of Villa Borghese and roasted in the sun. I got to see an armadillo though which was soooo cool! I got a video of it trundling around! (and honestly, it's a creature that definitely does trundle!)
I love the first picture of those donkey type creatures with their heads on each other's backs! they're apparently Onager or wild Asiatic ass, which frankly sounds like the name of a porno, not an animal! the last picture is the design I made with those funny sticky leaves, I always used to play with them when I was little!
On the weekends, I want to do loads of awesome trips but its so hard when youre alone. Cinque Terre is 5 hours on a train which is fine as a couple, you could go down on friday night and have a late dinner, check into your hotel, see the sights saturday and leave sunday night, but 10 hours there and back by myself sounds super depressing, so I havent booked anything.
Money wise I might as well be burning it because that's how I've been spending lately, I'm not even being flamboyant, it just happens!
I think that's about all that happened this week, god knows what monday will be like,cleaning out the fridge should definitely be on the list- ugh, the other day I took out a packet of eggs in there that were dated as mid last year! EW!
This afternoon and evening was probably one of the best since I've been here. Today I woke up with an awful sore throat, so I didn't go to my morning classes, but I felt pretty okay by this afternoon and went to my afternoon class, which was a fun one.
It is absoultely gorgeous in that area, and we had such a good time. We got to try Porchetta in Nemes, which is basically a type of cured/slow baked pork covered in spices and garlic and herbs. It was delicious! we also got to try fragolini, which is the name for tiny wild strawberries. I'd had them in Switzerland when I was little, and they are much nicer fresh than they are bought like we had them today, but still, they're gorgeous, very sweet.
After taking hundreds of pictures of the beautiful view, we went for dinner at an awesome restaurant. We had a huge U-shaped table and wine and water included in the meal.Two of the students who came are on their honeymoon, so they were seated at the head of the table and we toasted them in Italian. It's also traditional to yell 'baccio baccio baccio' to get the couple to kiss, and of course we did this as well!
We had the most amazing food, there were fried artichokes, crumbed, fried riceballs with tomato and mozarella inside, fried zucchini flowers stuffed with cheese, and a few other unidentifiable but totally delicious things, not to mention the pizza!
at the end we had a chocolate, ricotta and banana pizza. Delicious! and, there was a bird sitting on one of the chairs in the restaurant!
Anyway, as per usual we got back really late. I never seem to have any time to sleep! and tomorrow my sore throat will be back and I'll feel awful, haha!
Oh well, you know what they say - you can sleep when you're dead!
I'll leave you with these gorgeous pictures of the sunset. Ciao voxies!
I had a really lovely day today.
This morning I skyped with mum, dad, anna and willum, followed by fajitas for lunch at Roadhouse Grill, in station termini, with my flatmate. After lunch we took the metro to the beach and lay in the sun and swam for a while.
The beaches are not like australian beaches. The sand is really dark,and the waves are a lot more gentle. You pay to use a sun lounger which is awesome, it has a kind of flip lid thing to shade your face Haha, and the beach/sun lounger rental place was called Hakuna Matata!
After we came back, we had showers, got ready and went back out to meet my classmate Lisa, and her flatmates for dinner in Piazza Navona.
I had tortellini with cream, mushrooms, peas and ham, and we shared a bottle of prosecco and some tiramisu.
Afterwards we stood for a while and watched these incredible breakdancers, I got a quick vid of one, but they were all unbelievable
After that we walked up to the Trevi fountain which was just heaving with people, including a bride and groom!
we got icecream and now I'm back at home. I find that here, I forget the time really easily because it takes so long to get dark, and also people are awake, eating gelato, walking dogs, playing ballgames with kids... it seems more like 8pm than 11:30!
Ciao voxies!
xox R
