The world is very small. This morning, I enjoyed a coffee with Emilia and the bambine at their home in Caserta, and then I had a nice coffee and cornetto a crema with Frederick at the airport. By lunchtime, I met my friend Cindy, a fellow IFA student, in Athens. Air travel is amazing. It's 100 degrees here (wow, flashbacks to India!) but we enjoyed wandering the city and seeing new sights. Few people will ask (or indulge) questions about the style of scrolls on an early Byzantine church, so it's fun to be in the company of other art nerds. Last time I visited Athens, I was busy spending time with an attractive man that I met on the plane -- this time, I only had eyes for the Acropolis. Here is a pretty bad photo of the Temple of Hephaestus. Cindy and I wandered the agora, and then around the bottom of the hill where we found a fun concert. A few young women pinned 'I love life!' stickers on us, but who knows what that was about! After some more wandering, we found a delicious little Greek bistro with super-garlicky tsatziki and delicious stuffed grape leaves. This is a fabulous welcome to my home for two months! I'm settling in to the hotel with another fellow student, Genevieve, and preparing to take on the city tomorrow. yay!
9 comments:
It sounds like you're having a fabulous time! I'm glad to hear that. Miss ya!! MUAH
is it just me or does anyone else detect a "gastronomical" dimension to this world tour?
perhaps Kati has developed an entirely new technique for exploring the world...
GASTROGRAPHY .. the science of travel as experienced through the local culture's foods
if you make your food into art before you eat it, you may have a thesis topic.
gelato sculpture of Michelangelo's David... mmm tasty.
ah..internalizing the artistic experience
Ancient Greek art and gelato, blah, blah, blah...Let's talk about something that really matters, like the greatest chick pop group of all time reuniting and doing a world tour that happens to hit NYC on December 11th - hope you're around as I'm thinking I need to put some spice into my life!
Power to the world! Every boy and every girl! Michelle, if I can still get to impersonate posh spice, I'm IN. I see a Letts 3 North reunion coming my way.
And dad and Shanley, you are on the right path -- gastrography will be my new best subject!
Spice girls - we SO have to go. Is it possible that after my years and years of secret spice practicing I will move up from security detail to be one of the real spices?
BTW, Kate, whatcha been up to the past couple of days?
shanley, I hearby promote you to a full Spice girl. even if we both have to be posh spice -- we could be small and large, we could find someone 5'8" and have a medium.
i know! it seems crazy to me that internet access is better in India than in Greece!
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