Virtual photo album from my trip to Italy, continued
On September 15,
I was pretty unhappy to leave Urbania, because I'd had a lot of fun and
made some good friends there, and it was a really hard time to be alone
because it was so soon after the September 11 attacks. After 2 days in
Pesaro, I met up with Ben and we spent one afternoon in Florence, a night
in Bologna at the home of his friend Barbara (a wonderful if slightly
crazy woman), and a day in Venice (followed by another night in Bologna).
Venice was beautiful.
I like this picture, and I'm pretty sure I took it in Venice.
Then I went to Roma by myself. By then I guess I was feeling a bit stronger,
and I stayed in a hostel where I met lots of interesting people. I mostly
wandered the city by myself, except for when Megan came and we spent the
weekend together. But there were always people to talk to in the evenings
or go out with if I felt like it.
Anyway, this picture is of a bridge to Isola Tiberina, the only island in
the river that goes through Rome.
Here's Megan at the train station, ready to leave. She was on her way
back to Croatia. She is carrying everything she brought with her to spend
a year there!
I went to the Forum on my last day in Rome. It was beautiful, and I
wandered around it for ages. I also ran into both David Bianco and a
Japanese woman named Mi from Scuola Italia! Quite a coincidence.
This photo is of course diagonally oriented, which means that I can't
actually put it up facing the right direction, at least, not easily.
I left Rome (and Italy) quite reluctantly on 26 September. I spent 2 days
(and nights) in London, where I stayed with Ian (the socialist magician)
and Pam. While I was there I got to see both Ben and Dinah (separately),
and I had dinner with Amber, a friend and dancer-colleague from San Diego
who's studying theatre in London for a semester.
Then I spent nearly a week in Manchester, visiting my cousin Ruth.
If you'd like to see the photos from that,
go ahead.
Sally Picciotto / sallypicciotto (at) yahoo (dot) com