2024-10-17
(I'm not going to count this towards 100DaysToOffload, because it'll be brief.)
It was pretty miserable today. As a result, I didn't really do all that much. I went out to get breakfast at the place just by my hotel, and got a pizza marinara. I poured a bit too much olive oil on it so it was thoroughly drenched and even mopping it up didn't clear all the oil from the plate. Not complaining though. The tomatoes on that pizza were heavenly and if my Italian were better I would have asked what variety they are.
I then went to the bookstore just by the Due Torri, and perused a bit. I needed the toilet so went back to the hotel and just sat for a bit, and the maintenance man knocked at my door as he had to fix the toilet seat. I was just reading my RSS feeds (when I get back and on Internet again, I'll have so much reading to catch up on) whilst he worked on it.
I then went back out, grabbed some roast chestnuts to eat, and went back to the bookstore. I bought "Io Non Ho Paura" by Niccolo Ammaniti, and La Voce delle Onde by Yukio Mishima. Oh my word are books in Italy expensive. The former appears to have a good amount of dialogue in it, which will help me out. I can't really read Italian, but I've now got in total four books to practise with.
And then it was raining (heavily by that point) so I rushed back to the hotel, and have not really done anything at all since.
I'm just going to do my drawing and some exercises before bed and maybe read a little, but not much. I've only got two more full days left, and it'll be miserable for both of them.