Today is my last day in Rome. I leave for London tomorrow and head to New York Thursday. This has been a loooooooong-A vacation because of the language barrier. I’m tired and petulant and ready to settle down. I may need a vacation after this vacation.
Despite my general crotchety-ness at the moment, there are a few people who have made my vacation pleasant because of their kindness. I’ll take a moment right here and right now to give them a shout-out (I don’t call names). The guy working the desk at 1am and 5am in the morning in Alghero. He was so sweet and prepared a little breakfast to go for me. We talked about wrestling and I will see if I can rustle up an autographed photo of a wrestler to send to him. Then there is the woman who works at (or owns) the pizzeria that I have tried to go to each day. She knows that I don’t speak English and was very patient with me as I tried to decide what pizza I would eat (it always ended up being the same except today). Then my trip wouldn’t have been sunny without my “hell-of-a-tourguide”. He was like a ray of sunshine during the time that we hung out because he spoke English also and could translate those words that I had no idea about. I also received sociological explanations which really went a long way towards helping me understand the city (and country) I was walking around in. These are the people who stood out as making my vacation just a little easier. To them I would like to wish a heartfelt mille grazie.