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[fahye]

* Australia Day today! Instead of being in Athens where the hostel was giving away meat pies and hosting the Australian High Commission party, we are in Rome where nothing at all exciting is happening in our vicinity. Boo hiss.

* However: we are in Rome! I liked Rome a lot the last time I was here, and I am fully prepared to like it even more this time, even if the weather is shittier. So much good food, and so many churches. (Today we were in one with the most KICKASS MONUMENT-SLASH-TOMB-THING which had a winged angel of death and it was basically the coolest thing I'd ever seen, and I made such excited noises that Mel took a picture with flash (gasp, gasp) because she is great <3

* Things I miss: my TV shows, Asian food, my bedroom, ALL OF MY CLOTHING THAT IS NOT THE CLOTHING I HAVE WORN ON THIS TRIP, my family, my book collection...Asian food...I would murder puppies for some duck pancakes with hoi sin sauce. PUPPIES. ADORABLE BABY PUPPIES.

* On the recommendation of copinggoggles I am reading Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red and it is sublimely, amazingly good. Definitely deserved the Nobel Prize. READ IT. Also read DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little, which I enjoyed just as much for completely different reasons.

Comments

[spikeyboots.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Sounds brilliant. I love Rome, possibly far too much. I love it. It is so worthy of being called the Eternal City.

I MISS MY ASIAN FOOD TOO! *cries for Pad Thai*

Got your email. Consider me poked and proded for DN fic. :D

[merrycaepa.livejournal.com]

I have not yet read My Name is Red, but it's on the list. Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres may not be written by a Turk, but it's a brilliant, evocative novel that covers the death of the Ottoman Empire viewed through the inhabitants of a tiny, isolated town in southern Turkey (not far from where I am right now, actually). It'll break your heart but it'll do it beautifully.

Anyway, that's my two cents... *wanders off*