Travel

[rebness]

Well, I'm off to Alsace next week for a sabbatical, by which I mean lovely mountains and Colmar and Mulhouse and Strasbourg and general Alsatian excellence. I should be saving now. I shouldn't contemplate other trips abroad until afterwards, right?

£130.

£130 for six nights in Rome, with regional flights, transfers and funky accommodation close to Vatican City. In May. Of course, jaffacakequeen and I booked. OMFG ROMA!

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[sascha.livejournal.com]

I was studying there for half a year. I lived about 10-15 minutes from town in the direction of the university right next to the canal. Even though it's not a very pretty city by tourism standards, I found lots of parks and green spaces to relax, and I regularly fed the swans and ducks at the canal. :-)

I used to sit on the steps of that temple and read all the time, once it was nicer out. When it's not so cold, there are stands there all the time with people selling sausages and jams and fresh fruit and veg. There's another big market three days a week where you can get loads of fresh produce and meat products, but also a lot of North African goods (like gorgeous tea sets).

I'm thinking about going back in May so that I can hit the old haunts. It's been over three years since I've been there, and they had been talking about putting in a tram system and the likes. It'll be interesting to see what's changed. :-)