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I am sitting in an apartment in Rome punching this out on a borrowed but very beautiful Power Book having been out and about all afternoon looking at, you know, Rome and stuff. What an extraordinary place.
Still. I'm not going to go into great depths at this stage. This is essentially a 'what has Tom been up to' post in pictures for those who can't be bothered reading.
So last Thursday morning Snooze, Mother Snooze and I arrived here at 5am local time.
Snooze and Mother Snooze immediately got in a hire car and drove away, leaving me to fend for myself. I did ok.
This thing is truly enormous.
See.
I also saw a bit of this action.
And a sampling of this sort of thing.
On Saturday, I then bravely stepped onto a plane all on my own (quite a big thing for me) and went all Continental on my own ass, ending up in Rome.
Rome's old.
They have little cars and cool walls / gateways.
Their houses are pretty.
And they build monuments to hideous torture - this is San Giovanni in Oleo - that's right, Saint John in Oil. Actual boiling oil.
The point is he was immersed in the boiling oil (I can't work out by whom), but rather than perishing horrendously, he popped up just fine, some say even refreshed. Sweet trick. He's the one who wrote Revelations in the Bible. I guess it helps to be into God and stuff.
Being in a country with few people who speak your language is hard work, but kinda fun. What's not so fun is that I have developed a troublesome tooth. I am about to go and see a dentist. I expect it is going to cost me pretty much every penny I have and I'm not even a week into a four week holiday, but that's all part of the fun right?! right?
Anyhoos, I shall leave you to ponder these marvels and will aim to do it again some day.
Ciao (that's the extent of my Italian).
I am sitting in an apartment in Rome punching this out on a borrowed but very beautiful Power Book having been out and about all afternoon looking at, you know, Rome and stuff. What an extraordinary place.
Still. I'm not going to go into great depths at this stage. This is essentially a 'what has Tom been up to' post in pictures for those who can't be bothered reading.
So last Thursday morning Snooze, Mother Snooze and I arrived here at 5am local time.
Snooze and Mother Snooze immediately got in a hire car and drove away, leaving me to fend for myself. I did ok.
This thing is truly enormous.
See.
I also saw a bit of this action.
And a sampling of this sort of thing.
On Saturday, I then bravely stepped onto a plane all on my own (quite a big thing for me) and went all Continental on my own ass, ending up in Rome.
Rome's old.
They have little cars and cool walls / gateways.
Their houses are pretty.
And they build monuments to hideous torture - this is San Giovanni in Oleo - that's right, Saint John in Oil. Actual boiling oil.
The point is he was immersed in the boiling oil (I can't work out by whom), but rather than perishing horrendously, he popped up just fine, some say even refreshed. Sweet trick. He's the one who wrote Revelations in the Bible. I guess it helps to be into God and stuff.
Being in a country with few people who speak your language is hard work, but kinda fun. What's not so fun is that I have developed a troublesome tooth. I am about to go and see a dentist. I expect it is going to cost me pretty much every penny I have and I'm not even a week into a four week holiday, but that's all part of the fun right?! right?
Anyhoos, I shall leave you to ponder these marvels and will aim to do it again some day.
Ciao (that's the extent of my Italian).
last time I checked (several years ago) Australia had a Medicare agreement with Italy - because they also have a universal health system - so it's worth checking if you can claim anything that way.
ReplyDeleteyou don't want to spend all your coffee and cake (or cafe e paste) money at the dentist.
this is bad. won't travel insurance cover it? but still. bad.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the concern. Somewhat miraculously, the tooth issue has resolved itself. I suspect they should make me a Saint, there are certainly enough of them here.
I DID go to the dentist and he determined that the pain I had felt was in fact the death spasms of a wisdom tooth previously filled. However, the previous work had not removed all the nastiness and now it is an ex-tooth.
The 'good' news is it only cost an arm, I got to keep my leg and my insurance should be able to get me another arm at some stage. The bad news is I have to get the tooth removed pronto (that's Italian you know), but the dentist said it should be ok to wait until I get back to Aus.
One way or another it no longer hurts. Which is good.
So. Crisis averted for now.
Yea! Thanks God.
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