You are the luckiest man alive!! Rich, I didn't see the pictures the last time I visited your blog. They are great. Not too many people still in school have had the travel schedule you have had in the past twelve months. I'll be there in two weeks so I will have a chance to enjoy Italy too. Wish I could see October Fest. I might over indulge if given the opportunity. Have fun and we'll see you soon....Love ...Dad
Gym One other thing. As far as losing body mass - it's amazing how fast it comes off there isn't it? If you really are itching to be the standard American frat boy, there are three gym options there. 1) The free outdoor gymnasium where most people run (I think I mentioned it before) that's out between the edge of the city before the train station. 2) A gym where you get a small discount for being a student at the school 3) A gym closer to the University of Verona, where I think their students tend to work out when they aren't smoking cigarettes, drinking, and getting into their extremely tight pants.
Bike Rentals Rich,
For some reason I didn't think you were 40 minutes away. Instead of dealing with the bike problems, though, I might offer a couple pf options: 1) There are actually bikes you can rent for something like 50 Euro cents. I'm not kidding - they're hilarious yellow cruisers probably from like 1960, but they're incredibly cheap and what's awesome is they're coin operated, so you can literally rent it and keep it your whole trip, and then just return it to get your money. Honor system I guess? They're on the Northwest side of Piazza Bra - just ask Claudio and I'll bet he'll know. Or, you can B) Buy a sweet Bianchi at the bike store that's on the way to "Campus". It's about half way between the bar and the bridge you would cross to get over to it on the same street.
As far as the Soave festival goes, we never got to do that, but given that's my favorite White wine, I'm insanely jealous. Enjoy it as much as possible, and try to get to Garda after class as much as possible - it really is beautiful and so close!
Cheers
Luigi
Louis P. Pasquesi
You are the luckiest man alive!!
Rich, I didn't see the pictures the last time I visited your blog. They are great. Not too many people still in school have had the travel schedule you have had in the past twelve months. I'll be there in two weeks so I will have a chance to enjoy Italy too. Wish I could see October Fest. I might over indulge if given the opportunity. Have fun and we'll see you soon....Love ...Dad