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rushthatspeaksAs some of you may recall, my dear friend and housemate Thrud occasionally goes to Italy for job reasons, and writes back incredible and impressive travel emails about architecture, history, recipes, the lines at the museums... I've posted some of those emails here (under lock) over the years, and I know there are a couple of you who started reading this journal because of it.
She is in Florence this year and has gotten an actual blog: Ex Urbe. (Note for those of you who know her IRL: she's not linking her legal name to it at this time, and please keep it that way.)
You really want to be reading this. Thrud is the person I know who makes a habit of lurking near a particularly incomprehensible public water fountain in Rome just so she can show people which place to kick and which lever to pull to make it produce water. Thrud also makes a habit of swooping down on lost-looking and sad tourists, showing them everything it isn't possible to find on their own, and taking them to the best gelato shop in the city at the end of it... at which point they pay her in gelato, which is pretty much the racket I've seen run with the best outcome for everybody.
This blog already has her recipe for pasta carbonara, a comprehensive timeline of important events in Florence over the last millennium or so available for download, and a discussion of what it is like living in an apartment with eight belltowers within a three-block surrounding area, among other things. (I expect to share this apartment for about a month in the middle-distance future. Apparently I need to start planning on being a morning person.)
Most importantly, it's charming, funny, informative, and you will enjoy it.
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comments over there.
She is in Florence this year and has gotten an actual blog: Ex Urbe. (Note for those of you who know her IRL: she's not linking her legal name to it at this time, and please keep it that way.)
You really want to be reading this. Thrud is the person I know who makes a habit of lurking near a particularly incomprehensible public water fountain in Rome just so she can show people which place to kick and which lever to pull to make it produce water. Thrud also makes a habit of swooping down on lost-looking and sad tourists, showing them everything it isn't possible to find on their own, and taking them to the best gelato shop in the city at the end of it... at which point they pay her in gelato, which is pretty much the racket I've seen run with the best outcome for everybody.
This blog already has her recipe for pasta carbonara, a comprehensive timeline of important events in Florence over the last millennium or so available for download, and a discussion of what it is like living in an apartment with eight belltowers within a three-block surrounding area, among other things. (I expect to share this apartment for about a month in the middle-distance future. Apparently I need to start planning on being a morning person.)
Most importantly, it's charming, funny, informative, and you will enjoy it.
You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost. There are
