hey again,
just went for a boat trip today to an island on lake como which most of you will know because it was where the end of the latest james bond film was done. im talking about where he is in rehab and sitting in the wheelchair. the place is ausome, its a villa thats now owned by the italians but before hand was owned by this crazy guy who was an explorer, 21 expeditions and his house is full of artifacts from his travels, also has silk from como over the walls. the place is straight up baller! in his dieing wishes he said that the italians could have it if they maintained all the gardens by hand, and theres a heap of garden there, full time job fo sho. went over there on a little boat which nonna was trippen about but it was safe as. the guy who drove us told us about all the villas on the water, theres a villa there owned by richard branson, aswell as guiness, the guy who makes the beer. george clooney also has a villa here and is here atm playing golf. crazy places really to tell the truth.
yesterday we went to milan, for the rest of the guys they were all tired and would consider it the worst day of the tour fo sho, but i didnt mind it. theres a place there called the golden sqaure, its where all the designer labels are, so we went into the D&G store, which is 2 levels. they have guys in suits who open the door for you and say hello and goodbye, too far. also saw all the regular big names, the multiple Prada stores, georgio armani and gianni versace. Calvin Klein is like Target compared these bad boys LOL. got myself a really fat cigar today aswell, dopah!
tomorow we are leaving here, its been a mad place to stay, too posh though i have to say, still have a good time though. been drinking wine the last two nights aswell which is new and i dont mind the taste either.
also i finally understand now why nonno talks to everyone when we go to dinner back in aus, it seems that it is completely normal here, and although in the past i have always been embaressed by his over friendly attitude, i know see where it comes from and that its a good thing. the difference between aus and italy is that the italians really take to it, nonno and nonna always end out talking to the waiters, shop assistants, random jigs for a good 5 or 10 minutes, always make the people laugh here, whereas in aus the waiters just laugh and usually walk away without saying a word. nonna has also been laughing heaps since we started on the trip, i think she is excited to go back home. this has been really good to see them laughing and enjoying themselves here, especially since nonno has been stressing so much back home bout moving and rennovating there aptmt.
best be off, either venice or rimini tomorow cant remember
peace bishes
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
hotel belvadere
holla,
currently in laga de como which is off milan at the moment. staying at a pretty dope hotel where it is a tad upmarket. not really fitting in all that much lol, so many old jigs that think there uber rich ahaha.
went to see cinque terra which was pretty ausome, we were sitting by the ocean kinda thing eating lunch and there was a wedding on near us, ugly beach though. did the walk from the first town of cinque terra to the second then caught the train, suprisingly nonna has been making all the walks which is really good.
on the drive to where we are now it took bout 6 hours, the roads here are pretty small and tight, ud be suprised how many close calls there are. this has been one of the few days where we havent done anything, most days have been doing random day trips to random places. got a heap of photos and stuff which should be good. soon were of to venice i think, tomorow well be getting the train to milan though. went to a dope shopping outlet the other day, bought a few things, got me sum new kicks.
bustin out now, gainas gay ass wants to use the computer
peace bishes
currently in laga de como which is off milan at the moment. staying at a pretty dope hotel where it is a tad upmarket. not really fitting in all that much lol, so many old jigs that think there uber rich ahaha.
went to see cinque terra which was pretty ausome, we were sitting by the ocean kinda thing eating lunch and there was a wedding on near us, ugly beach though. did the walk from the first town of cinque terra to the second then caught the train, suprisingly nonna has been making all the walks which is really good.
on the drive to where we are now it took bout 6 hours, the roads here are pretty small and tight, ud be suprised how many close calls there are. this has been one of the few days where we havent done anything, most days have been doing random day trips to random places. got a heap of photos and stuff which should be good. soon were of to venice i think, tomorow well be getting the train to milan though. went to a dope shopping outlet the other day, bought a few things, got me sum new kicks.
bustin out now, gainas gay ass wants to use the computer
peace bishes
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
catchup
hey guys,
taken me long enough i know, i havent had the chance to get on the net since the airport where it was free. im in a tourist info thing in bagni di luca (bagni caldi) 1.5 euro for an hour of net use. my aswell do a recap of everything thats really happened. well first of, the flight was long, that sucked. then we got our first taste of all the hype of italian drivers and how crazy they are, to me it felt fine, it was nonno who was trippin, i was happy it was a place where not indicating and speeding was accepted lol! i we stayed at hotel oxford for 3 nights which is almost in the centre of rome, at some dope food, ive had pizza and pasta everyday and every meal bar breakfest and had meat prollas 2 times mayb.
while in rome we went to the ancient ruines and did the vatican aswell. stupidly i didnt know that the vatican was its own country, so i learnt something lol the ancient ruines were amazing, the whole of rome is fucken amazing actually, just the way they live so cramped and yet they build so many churches and monuments to the gods, honestly it cant be explained unless u see it. i have taken a heap of photos, so hopefully when i get back il make a video of the trip. as for now i cant get any photos up, just one actually. also while we were at the vatican our tour guide got into a fight with another tour guide LOL. they started pushing each other cause the other guy cut the line, then sum common hero dad had to jump in and stop it, could have been a good fist fight, make the day exciting lol went to st pauls basillica, ausome too, aswell as sistine (dont know how to spell) chappel, got some photos even though its banned lol, have to check em out.
so we left rome and picked up our car from the airport, its a huge bus, a fiat ducato, and its very tight here, that and people driving like mad on there mobiles makes for sum stressful times. unfortunately i cant drive! it would have cost like double so dad said no. when we were driving from rome airport to bagni di lucca nonno swapped over with dad to drive, almost killed us twice, i kid u not. in sum parts of the italian highway there arent gaurd rails on the road, and nonno couldnt judge the cars size and we almost drove of the side, scary shit. so from then on dad has driven every time.
on the way to bagni di lucca there was a group of motorbikers and italian cars drive by, lambos ferraris and then yamaha bikes and wahtever, got a small video, pretty mad. other than that seen a heap of porsches, thats about it. we made it bagni di lucca alright even though the roads are one car wide, and weve been doing day trips a couple of times. went to florence, didnt se the statue of david though cause of the line, but did a bit of shopping there, so many shops! today we went to lucca and walked around there. tomorow were of to cinque terra for the day which should be good. have been getting up real early and had full on days, not much sleep which gaina keeps whinging about lol at 830pm at night its daylight still, trips u out. we are staying in a villa which is in the mountains, its pretty secluded here, real nice place. alright, better bust out, been here for a while. sorry i havent posted much, didnt have access in rome, and even though we havent even been here for a week i feel like its been a month, so theres heaps to come. next is bellagio on lake commo which is the 5 star place, thatll be good im sure lol bought sum fine cigars and sum nice cheeses, so hope to get into them, even though nonno hates it lol
be posting soon fo shoo, hope everything is well back home, keeps it rull rull
p.s. scroll down the bottom for the pic
taken me long enough i know, i havent had the chance to get on the net since the airport where it was free. im in a tourist info thing in bagni di luca (bagni caldi) 1.5 euro for an hour of net use. my aswell do a recap of everything thats really happened. well first of, the flight was long, that sucked. then we got our first taste of all the hype of italian drivers and how crazy they are, to me it felt fine, it was nonno who was trippin, i was happy it was a place where not indicating and speeding was accepted lol! i we stayed at hotel oxford for 3 nights which is almost in the centre of rome, at some dope food, ive had pizza and pasta everyday and every meal bar breakfest and had meat prollas 2 times mayb.
while in rome we went to the ancient ruines and did the vatican aswell. stupidly i didnt know that the vatican was its own country, so i learnt something lol the ancient ruines were amazing, the whole of rome is fucken amazing actually, just the way they live so cramped and yet they build so many churches and monuments to the gods, honestly it cant be explained unless u see it. i have taken a heap of photos, so hopefully when i get back il make a video of the trip. as for now i cant get any photos up, just one actually. also while we were at the vatican our tour guide got into a fight with another tour guide LOL. they started pushing each other cause the other guy cut the line, then sum common hero dad had to jump in and stop it, could have been a good fist fight, make the day exciting lol went to st pauls basillica, ausome too, aswell as sistine (dont know how to spell) chappel, got some photos even though its banned lol, have to check em out.
so we left rome and picked up our car from the airport, its a huge bus, a fiat ducato, and its very tight here, that and people driving like mad on there mobiles makes for sum stressful times. unfortunately i cant drive! it would have cost like double so dad said no. when we were driving from rome airport to bagni di lucca nonno swapped over with dad to drive, almost killed us twice, i kid u not. in sum parts of the italian highway there arent gaurd rails on the road, and nonno couldnt judge the cars size and we almost drove of the side, scary shit. so from then on dad has driven every time.
on the way to bagni di lucca there was a group of motorbikers and italian cars drive by, lambos ferraris and then yamaha bikes and wahtever, got a small video, pretty mad. other than that seen a heap of porsches, thats about it. we made it bagni di lucca alright even though the roads are one car wide, and weve been doing day trips a couple of times. went to florence, didnt se the statue of david though cause of the line, but did a bit of shopping there, so many shops! today we went to lucca and walked around there. tomorow were of to cinque terra for the day which should be good. have been getting up real early and had full on days, not much sleep which gaina keeps whinging about lol at 830pm at night its daylight still, trips u out. we are staying in a villa which is in the mountains, its pretty secluded here, real nice place. alright, better bust out, been here for a while. sorry i havent posted much, didnt have access in rome, and even though we havent even been here for a week i feel like its been a month, so theres heaps to come. next is bellagio on lake commo which is the 5 star place, thatll be good im sure lol bought sum fine cigars and sum nice cheeses, so hope to get into them, even though nonno hates it lol
be posting soon fo shoo, hope everything is well back home, keeps it rull rull
p.s. scroll down the bottom for the pic
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
narita ya`all
holla ya`all,
currently milling in narita airport, had to get up early this morning to get to the airport to do nothing, but cant really say the hotel was that exciting, was nothing to do there bar buy beers from the vending machines, which ill have to say is fucken sweet lol can of budweiser for 4 dollars and if u go to the convenience store u can get a full asahi beer for 2 dollars, everything here is allot cheaper as far as everyday things is concerned.
as far as electronics goes u can get a PSP in the airport duty free for 198 dollars, pretty good.
only thing thats dissapointed me has been the cars, i expected to see allot more skylines and shit, anything thats a tad more riced up. unfortunately i havent been able to get onto the drifiting circuit here as i would have liked :< didnt get to mill with DK from tokyo drift either lol
the best car ive seen has been a 645 beemer and an evo 5, real one too
havent done anything bar go to the airport and the hotel so my next blogs will be more exciting i hope
13 hour flight here i come! then my italian adventures will begin
peace ya`all, keeps it rull rull
P.S. CIANNNNOOOOOOO!
currently milling in narita airport, had to get up early this morning to get to the airport to do nothing, but cant really say the hotel was that exciting, was nothing to do there bar buy beers from the vending machines, which ill have to say is fucken sweet lol can of budweiser for 4 dollars and if u go to the convenience store u can get a full asahi beer for 2 dollars, everything here is allot cheaper as far as everyday things is concerned.
as far as electronics goes u can get a PSP in the airport duty free for 198 dollars, pretty good.
only thing thats dissapointed me has been the cars, i expected to see allot more skylines and shit, anything thats a tad more riced up. unfortunately i havent been able to get onto the drifiting circuit here as i would have liked :< didnt get to mill with DK from tokyo drift either lol
the best car ive seen has been a 645 beemer and an evo 5, real one too
havent done anything bar go to the airport and the hotel so my next blogs will be more exciting i hope
13 hour flight here i come! then my italian adventures will begin
peace ya`all, keeps it rull rull
P.S. CIANNNNOOOOOOO!
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