The Rome and Croatia photos are up at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klatchy/
There's a separate set for Rome and Croatia.
Enjoy! and for those of your who are awesome photographers, please also to be commenting on the crapness of the photos ;)
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
La Città Eterna
My flight from Dubai to Rome was much better. Possibly because I was more rested, but there was still bugger all leg room. Ok, I'm going to stop ranting about that now.
To my surprise and horror, the navigation video screen displayed Milan as the final destination. Nowhere on my ticket did it mention Milan at all! Anywho, milled about at Milan airport for an hour before getting back on the plane for an hour long flight to Rome.
Found my accomodation without too much hassle, in a quaint little street nestled right next to the railway station (useful for trip to Naples). After freshening up, I decided to go for a random wander, and sort out a few things that cocked up during the flight over (lack of contacts, body wash leaking all over the suitcase, no adaptor for lappy).
No sooner had I set foot back in the square in front of the railway station, I was accosted by two horrible looking gypsy women. One trying to grab and kiss my arm and the other trying to use some crude cardboard apparatus to attempt some sleight of hand on my man bag. I had to forcibly remove them from me and bark obscenities to them in English before they would bugger off. I really didn't want to do that, and they really were amateurs, since they were at it for about a good half a minute without filching anything from my bag!
I faffed around in the Railway station mall, found what I needed (except for the lappy adapter), and walked down a random street, it eventually took me down to Trajan's Forum, YAY!, got a few pics on the SLR but the light was dimming and I didn't take the tripod along. Ducked into a Trattoria and had some lovely pasta, finished up with gelato :)
Waiting for Masty and Bruce now, he txted me about an hour ago, no further word. Might get something to eat.
Ciao for now :P
To my surprise and horror, the navigation video screen displayed Milan as the final destination. Nowhere on my ticket did it mention Milan at all! Anywho, milled about at Milan airport for an hour before getting back on the plane for an hour long flight to Rome.
Found my accomodation without too much hassle, in a quaint little street nestled right next to the railway station (useful for trip to Naples). After freshening up, I decided to go for a random wander, and sort out a few things that cocked up during the flight over (lack of contacts, body wash leaking all over the suitcase, no adaptor for lappy).
No sooner had I set foot back in the square in front of the railway station, I was accosted by two horrible looking gypsy women. One trying to grab and kiss my arm and the other trying to use some crude cardboard apparatus to attempt some sleight of hand on my man bag. I had to forcibly remove them from me and bark obscenities to them in English before they would bugger off. I really didn't want to do that, and they really were amateurs, since they were at it for about a good half a minute without filching anything from my bag!
I faffed around in the Railway station mall, found what I needed (except for the lappy adapter), and walked down a random street, it eventually took me down to Trajan's Forum, YAY!, got a few pics on the SLR but the light was dimming and I didn't take the tripod along. Ducked into a Trattoria and had some lovely pasta, finished up with gelato :)
Waiting for Masty and Bruce now, he txted me about an hour ago, no further word. Might get something to eat.
Ciao for now :P
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
SIN - DXB
I regret not flying with Singapore airlines now.
The flight to Dubai was a shocker, packed with first time dud fliers, the guy next to me kept on coughing the whole trip, complete with flying bits of phlegm *shudder*, sounded like he was on his last stretches after contracting bubonic plague.
Question... why do people insist on bringing babies on planes? Their delicate ears aren't ready to handle rapid changes in pressure, and no matter how lovely you think your baby's cries are, a team of babies performing synchronised wailing does not a church choir make. If you can afford to fly, you can afford to leave your baby behind and hire a babysitter. If you're taking your baby to visit relatives... DON'T!, your relatives should come and visit you, otherwise they're cheapskates and you should disown them.
Additionally, there's drastically decreased leg room, it was like a long haul Air Asia flight, only Air Asia is 100 times cheaper. Anyway most of the trip I was too tired to care. Hopefully the flight over to Rome is better.
The airport is also a marked change to the pristine, ordered Changi airport. People sleeping on the floor all over the airport in various states of undress, a few concerning smells in places. But hey, at least I get free wireless and the guy at the information counter reminded me of the Fonz, albeit an Arabic version.
Now if only the airport sold contact lenses.... :-/. Rather than forgetting socks and underwear, this time my supply of contact lenses conveniently decided to run out!
... I should really stop ranting now and get to my gate. :D
The flight to Dubai was a shocker, packed with first time dud fliers, the guy next to me kept on coughing the whole trip, complete with flying bits of phlegm *shudder*, sounded like he was on his last stretches after contracting bubonic plague.
Question... why do people insist on bringing babies on planes? Their delicate ears aren't ready to handle rapid changes in pressure, and no matter how lovely you think your baby's cries are, a team of babies performing synchronised wailing does not a church choir make. If you can afford to fly, you can afford to leave your baby behind and hire a babysitter. If you're taking your baby to visit relatives... DON'T!, your relatives should come and visit you, otherwise they're cheapskates and you should disown them.
Additionally, there's drastically decreased leg room, it was like a long haul Air Asia flight, only Air Asia is 100 times cheaper. Anyway most of the trip I was too tired to care. Hopefully the flight over to Rome is better.
The airport is also a marked change to the pristine, ordered Changi airport. People sleeping on the floor all over the airport in various states of undress, a few concerning smells in places. But hey, at least I get free wireless and the guy at the information counter reminded me of the Fonz, albeit an Arabic version.
Now if only the airport sold contact lenses.... :-/. Rather than forgetting socks and underwear, this time my supply of contact lenses conveniently decided to run out!
... I should really stop ranting now and get to my gate. :D
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