Black Sea 2007, Day 2
Today started out interesting, I slept in. Didn’t mean to! Wasn’t planning on it! But, it’s OK, none of the vans have showed up yet. It’s sad when we’re on a ship that costs about $40,000 per day, and everyone’s in their bunk or taking a walk into town.
Doc Mary and I took a walk into town. As you might remember we’re parked in one of Italy’s Navy bases. There are a lot of guards around and, as you might imagine, there’s quite a lot of water here, too. Of course we’re on the opposite side of the bay, from where the center of town is. We walked through the base and exited by the town. That walk took about 30 minutes. We had a lovely time.
La Spezia is definitely one of those hidden cities of Italy that doesn’t have a touristy thing about it, so most people will pass it by. It’s very pretty here, but there are no major museums or attractions. We walked through an open-air market and had a fantastic time using our broken Italian to find different stores for the items we were looking for (a USB cable, Q-Tips, and a SIM card). One thing you have to love about European countries: they will almost doing anything to help someone out. We just HAPPENED to find a computer store, but they were out of USB cables. The young woman behind the counter asked if we could come back in the afternoon. Not knowing when the vans were going to show up, we said, “No”. She said, “Alright” and sold us the USB cable she was using for her printer, at a discount.
Our walk back was a little more adventurous, since there is a gate by the boat, but you basically have to walk all the way around the bay. What took us 30 minutes the first time, took 90 minutes this time. That took some time. After we got back the vans arrived. Finally, something to do!
As our boss, Jim Newman described, we got more done in 3 hours, that usually took two days. Don’t tell those that judge our budget. Why would they allow three days for what took us a day and a half to do. We sweated, we broke our backs, and we still got it done in short order.
Now, I need some sleep.
posted by DaveandBrian @ 7:17 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home