http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Maren-Rosenberg/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Maren Rosenberg en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:09:08 +0000 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:09:08 +0000 March 15 March 20 Group B with Vic Sophie and EoghanThanks Eoghan for letting me steal your pictures....yet agian.After a Skype conversation with my father on Sunday I have decided to stick to the day by day paragraph format as he is one of the two people I know subscribe to this blog. So I know Irsquom pleasing at least 50 satisfied reader rate 61514 Sunday March 15th Had a qui http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-383409.html Week 7March 1Mrach 7 Group B with Vic Sophie and EoghanSpent Sunday evening driving to Torino. Stayed in a cozy odiously not designed for four people room. The shows on Monday were difficult as we two shows for 100 plus students each. The teachers were very disorganized and the workshops were just two groups. The school itself was beautiful looked kind of like Hogwarts inside with big c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-381691.html Week 8March 9March 15 Group B with Vic Sophie and EoghanOn Sunday I got an email from my father loving poking fun at my lack of formatting in these entries. I believe he put it as ldquoworking my way though possibly the worlds longest paragraphrdquo. So I will do my best this week to break up my thoughts for your reading comfort. Monday everyone slept well and we enjoyed having a sel http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-381692.html Week 5Feb 16 Feb 23 Group A with Sophie and XanderWe stayed in a adorable flat Sunday night. It was an adorable apartment attached to Mr. Luigigrsquos house. He was a lovely and though he didnrsquot speak very much English he made us all feel very welcome and at home just showrsquos you how much a persons feelings and personality can transcends language barriers. After our lovely brea http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-379109.html Irsquove felt badly that I havenrsquot been writing. I donrsquot only keep this blog for myself but also for those of my friends and family who would like a way of keeping up with my life. Several things have been motivating me not to write my camera breaking and wanting to get other peoples photorsquos of the past weeks to accompany this entry the growing amount of writing I have to c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-377320.html Watched Prince Caspian Sunday night with Vic and woke up at 10am to say goodbye to Vic Xander Katie and Laura. They will be in Rome for TWO WEEKS Lucky lucky team awesome. Katie went down with them for the first week only. From what I have head everyone is having a lovely time down there. We left for Milan Helen Sophie Eughen and I around 1130. Though I was scheduled to spend the wee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-369238.html So the first two weeks back at work have passed. It has a much calmer rehearsal period then last years. We have three new actors Sophie Xander and Eughen. The first week Xander was still on tour doing a panto so Team Brilliant now Me Helen Sophie and Eughen rehearsed most of our shows. Xander arrived on the first Sunday back and the next week was mostly spent rehearsing the new team http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/Sanremo/blog-365146.html So the last five days have been very relaxing. Felt a little slothful but knowing that Irsquom going back to work on the 7th I donrsquot feel too bad. On the first I slept in again okay so pretty much every day this week I havenrsquot gotten out of bed for before 10am1000. Lin Wae and I went for caf in the afternoon and showed one another pictures of our homes. Lin Wae as well as be http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-360434.html On December 27th Tanya and I got on the 10am train. To my very pleasant surprise the tickets to Naples were only 19 euro instead of the 40 euro as listed on the TrenItalia website. The train ended up taking about an hour longer but I think 21 euro are is certainly worth an hour of my time. It breaks down to only slightly less then what I get paid per show without bonuses anyway. We caught t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-360433.html Arrived safe and sound in Foligno at 10am. Foligno and Spello where I will be staying are in the Umbria province of Italy in the middle about midcalf of the boot. A little achy from the train the six hour train from Genova to Rome I had to spend sitting on the floor of the narrow hallway. Second class was the six seater style compartments and I had not been assigned a seat. The train was p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-360047.html Again no pictures from this week. Here are somemore from Jack and Vic. Its also nice to look back on the good ol days of the tour before.....well the less good newer days.Went to the boxing gym Monday and Tuesdays night with Chris. Really enjoyed training there hope I get myself back there after the holiday break and rehearsals. There is one other women who trains there Lisa who is some http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-360024.html As I didn't manage to take an pictures this week the photo's for this entry are brought to you from the rest of the company. Mostly Vic and Jack. So enjoy the montage of Lingue moments even if they don't match the text.So we had an extra day this weekend as Monday is an Italian holiday. So on the day of the Madonna I did very litter during the day. Went for a jogged did laundry bough groc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-354119.html This week Chris Victoria and I were on tour as team awesome while team brilliant stayed in the flat and taught long workshops in Milan. We set off Sunday night and after a three hour drive found our hotel. It was raining and after about five minuets of knocking and buzzing we were greeted by a VERY talkative and well meaning but overly helpful hotel manager. After about half an hour of going http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-352771.html Tuesday we had yet another easy day. I canrsquot believe how down the bookings are. Everyone has been fighting the winter chest cold. Tom Tom got very confused and it took us quite a while to get to Costa Masnaga near Lecco. Had a quiet evening in the little town. Just stayed in in our crappy little room with the window that overlookedsmelled a plumbing construction project. However http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-350710.html Woke up this morning to SNOW I am glad I didnrsquot stay in Federicorsquos flat in Padova alone and come back to Milano today Monday because one I was very happy to see everyone and two I wouldnrsquot have been here to go to Bergamo with Laura this morning to pick up Helen and her brother. We met them in the late morning and spent a few hours together in the new snow in beautiful Berg http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Bergamo/blog-348478.html Mestra near VeronaSo we spent a lazy two days in Milan. Got lots of laundry done and house keeping stuff. Chris Laura and I drove two hours to a small town outside of Venice. After some confusion in finding the BB we arrived to a lovely homey flat. Tons of books on the shelves. Comfy big beds. I was asked to please take the single room because my cold I think has been causing me to s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-348475.html as of Nov 17. There is a teacherseducation strike in Italy I donrsquot really understand it but apparently bookings are WAY down and they are still taking bookings so schedules are liable to change.Nov 19 Mestre near VeniceNov 2021 Lonigo near VicenzaNov 22 Seminar in VicenzaNov 23 Sunday we always have offNov 2425 Also OffNov 26 Costa Masnaga near LeccoNov 27 Sondrio http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-346233.html So I arrived at the station and then had to wait a half hour for the bus. Vic texted me and asked me to meet her at the Roman Theatre. So I took the bus there and then as I got off I called Vic from under the theatro Roma sign. As I called I had an inkling that she was near the Roman arena which is also used as theatre and someone who had never been to Verona which Vic hadnrsquot would ea http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Verona/blog-346231.html Thursday was a lovely day. Went out on Wednesday evening with one of the young women from the office Raf and Jake returned from Milano. So I was very grateful to got to sleep in and then left for the riding lesson around 3pm1500. The lesson was certainly not worth the 22 euros. The horses seemed really board and constantly needed to be encouraged to go. Laura is quite an experienced rider http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-346229.html I shared a ride to Hamburg with a man named Sven and a nineteen year old guy who was serving his civil service time in the army. His station was in Bulgaria. I was dropped off at my hostel around 11pm2300 and I decided after taking a little walk around to find a cash machine that I would get a proper night sleep as I had grown accustom to only having about four every night. I checked into In http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Hamburg/Hamburg/blog-315841.html