Holy CRAP!

[brinshannara]

"Holy CRAP, is Italy FRIGGING EXPENSIVE!"
(or, Brin has the evening to herself, thank God.)

So much to say that it's actually, physically impossible to write it all down.

First, photos will be coming shortly -- gotta upload my edited ones -- and then transfer more from the camera to the computer, edit them and upload 'em. So watch this space!

My parents are out to dinner thanks to my father's conference, so I have the evening to myself and it's a damn good thing, because I am about ready to kill them both while they sleep. :D

Anyways, I'm sitting here looking through the room service menu.

A burger and fries is 16 euros. Which is abooooout $24 Canadian, so something like, $20 USD. Okay. I get that. It's a hotel.

Guess, JUST GUESS, how much a SINGLE Coke is.

Go on.

Guess.

WRONG.

FIVE EUROS. $7.50 CAD! Or like, $6 USD!

Water? 5 euros for half a litre. SIX euros for 750mL. How crazy!

And it's not that much cheaper outside the hotel, either.

In brief news, The Last Supper will not be seen, because they are sold out until mid-July. They do NOT mention this on the website. At least not in English. ... or in Italian.

Bastards. If any of you go to Milan and want to see it, book your visit RIGHT AFTER you confirm your flights. Seriously.

Okay, I'm going to order my food and play with photos. I'll have access to the 'net 'till about 1:22pm ET on Thursday (7:22pm here), so I can get your emails, etc. :)

I'll update the post when the photos are uploaded!

http://www.goodchatting.com/brin/lj/italy2006/

Voila. Some of you may have already seen unedited versions of the photos from the 12th.

13th is more Duomo, mostly (and the tiny bit of the roof I was on. :P) and the 14th is at Santa Maria Delle Grazie (Our Lady of Grace -- Notre Dame de Grace) and the place where The Last Supper is at. Which is sold out until July. Screw 'em. :P

But they did have a lovely cloister.

Comments

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Did you go up to the roof of the Duomo??

Stuff's probably expensive 'cause you're in touristy areas. And also 'cause Europe is fricking expensive -- be glad you're not in England. ;P

[brinshannara]

I did, but I think I missed something, 'cause all I got to go to was this tiny little area. If there's something more, do tell and I'll climb the damn stairs up tomorrow.

Nah, it's like, four times as expensive in the touristy areas, but even the non-touristy areas are stupid. It's just like my Italian teacher said -- they brought in the Euro and just converted everything straight across. What was 1000 lire became 1 Euro. Which is about a 150-200% markup.

I AM SO GLAD I AM NOT IN ENGLAND. For one, I don't have to look right when crossing first, which nearly killed me more than once the other summer. ;) Can't wait to hear Pop complain about gas prices as of Friday, though. :)

.... so really, did I miss out on something on the roof or what?

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, you should be able to walk all over the roof. I think you have to buy a ticket before you go up. Check out the last three rows of photos there -- you should be able to see all of that.

[brinshannara]

Well DAMN. I missed out on like, all of the roof. I got this one little area. Bummer.

I did buy a ticket, too. :P

Thanks for the heads up, though -- tomorrow I will go forth and climb stairs and conquer Il Duomo. ;)