the place I stayed at.
The two small coast towns are quite cute. a typical tourist town center, with overpriced icecream, pizza restaurants, bars and nto to forget those typical dark skinned vendours that sell everything: food, clothing,fake gucci bags, bracelets, everything. but luckily some do not get annoying about it, whilst others dont let go of you, especially if you have shown some sort of interrest.
Appart from the sardine private beaches, the really really really cool thing about tirrenia was the small green WWF protected strip of mediteranean forrest. very cool.
more to come
Friday, 17 July 2009
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Italy
I am starting another series of anecdotes of my italy vacation i am currently on. TIs my last day, and I just discovered the internet terminal of the hotel, so i am going to finish at home.
this year I have a short vacation. not viositing 5 countries, no, only visiting 3: holland for IMUNA, switzerland, as a drive through and Italy, near Pisa where I am at this moment.
It was another one of those ad hoc situations. exactly one week ago my parents phoned this hotel they had found online and reserved a room for the night. we got packing, left and found ourselves 650 km furhter south that evening.
the hotel turned out pretty nice, nicer ythan those thing I have stayed in the last few years. no cockroaches like in macedonia or rusty bathtubs, no wood powered heating like in romania and no tiny room giving space for 3 beds and 3 beds only like in slovenia. Dont understand me wrong, I had absolutely nothing against all these hotels, but a nice one is a good change for once.
The little town Tirrenia we are in, is located between the port city of Livorno and Marina di Pisa, where the Arno river flows into the mediterranean sea. It feels like a tourist town, almost a linear settlement along the coastline, though i suppose it only is full of tourists in summer. thats not quite my favourite holiday situation, but it has a nice beach, clear water , sunny weather and gave me time to read my english assignments.
The day trips we took were to Pisa, Florence and today we are going to halt in milano, if we ever get out of here.
that leads me to a last point. my parents. its the last holiday i spent with them, and even though I like my parents and get along quite well with them, there are things that annoy me, the slowness my dad exhibits when he wants to leave the hotel, even to go to the beach, and simply the lack of hanging out with people my age. its awkward meeting people with parents at your back, even more so if you speak good 5 words of the language. but i am here for and with my parents after all and despite all the bitch fighting that occasionally arrises we get along better every day were here.
this year I have a short vacation. not viositing 5 countries, no, only visiting 3: holland for IMUNA, switzerland, as a drive through and Italy, near Pisa where I am at this moment.
It was another one of those ad hoc situations. exactly one week ago my parents phoned this hotel they had found online and reserved a room for the night. we got packing, left and found ourselves 650 km furhter south that evening.
the hotel turned out pretty nice, nicer ythan those thing I have stayed in the last few years. no cockroaches like in macedonia or rusty bathtubs, no wood powered heating like in romania and no tiny room giving space for 3 beds and 3 beds only like in slovenia. Dont understand me wrong, I had absolutely nothing against all these hotels, but a nice one is a good change for once.
The little town Tirrenia we are in, is located between the port city of Livorno and Marina di Pisa, where the Arno river flows into the mediterranean sea. It feels like a tourist town, almost a linear settlement along the coastline, though i suppose it only is full of tourists in summer. thats not quite my favourite holiday situation, but it has a nice beach, clear water , sunny weather and gave me time to read my english assignments.
The day trips we took were to Pisa, Florence and today we are going to halt in milano, if we ever get out of here.
that leads me to a last point. my parents. its the last holiday i spent with them, and even though I like my parents and get along quite well with them, there are things that annoy me, the slowness my dad exhibits when he wants to leave the hotel, even to go to the beach, and simply the lack of hanging out with people my age. its awkward meeting people with parents at your back, even more so if you speak good 5 words of the language. but i am here for and with my parents after all and despite all the bitch fighting that occasionally arrises we get along better every day were here.
end of school
an entire year has passed. one more to go. this year the end of school felt completely different again. even though there was this urge to get out, which started even earlier than last year, we did have exams pretty much the last week. this meant that a last push was necessary. and all at once i was studying studying studying and all the sudden...POOF! schools out. I go to IMUNA, which I PGAd this year, I get my report card and i have off. that went way too fast for me, but I think another great problem is that unlike the other years where summer holidays were two months of trying hard to forget as much as possible, so hat our brains are like "squeaky clean sponges" (mr garvey, the mid IB break does not do that fr me. I cannot let go of school, even though I have been off for two weeks now.
maybe thats because of the homework, I have finished my third and last book for english yesterday, and now "all" I have to worry about are one english essay, one history project my flunked math paper 2 and especially my Extended Essay, all of which are vast (ok, tiny compared to exams but still) parts of my final IB grade.
school should be over, but effectively it is not. Its still the same people, with one exception, the same workload and hopefully the same teachers. we had class the last day and probably are going to continue just where we left off in august. on fluffy "hello welcome to the year stuff" .
Actually i dont want to press the "shut down" button, cuz i know what i do now i dont have to do later, when i want to do other things, like dance, study or sleep.
maybe thats because of the homework, I have finished my third and last book for english yesterday, and now "all" I have to worry about are one english essay, one history project my flunked math paper 2 and especially my Extended Essay, all of which are vast (ok, tiny compared to exams but still) parts of my final IB grade.
school should be over, but effectively it is not. Its still the same people, with one exception, the same workload and hopefully the same teachers. we had class the last day and probably are going to continue just where we left off in august. on fluffy "hello welcome to the year stuff" .
Actually i dont want to press the "shut down" button, cuz i know what i do now i dont have to do later, when i want to do other things, like dance, study or sleep.
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