{"id":207,"date":"2006-06-06T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2006\/06\/vacation-is-ending\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:19","slug":"vacation-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/06\/vacation-is-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Is Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\" face=\"arial\"><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;m tired and petulant and ready to settle down. I may need a vacation after this vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my general crotchety-ness at the moment, there are a few people who have made my vacation pleasant because of their kindness. I&#8217;ll take a moment right here and right now to give them a shout-out (I don&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t have been sunny without my &#8220;hell-of-a-tourguide&#8221;. 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.<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"\" align=\"justify\">\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/06\/vacation-is-ending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vacation Is Ending<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace-archive"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Today is my last day in Rome. 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