http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz shouts from around the globe from the most homeless girl you know Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:48:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Where have I been? Siena and San Gimignano, where there lives the cutest donkey in existence with his perpetual sticking-tongue-out-post-consuming-orange habit (watch out, he will chew your jacket with much gusto though!), where there is a Martini on the rocks and a non-existent Barna from Siena, a shell-shaped Piazza that slopes ... http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz/2008/04/08/snapshots/ Visited Mantua, Padua and Venice last weekend. Wandered around churches, saw Giotto's Arena Chapel, pondered orgiastic frescoes, wondered if I had anything in common with Cupid and Psyche, and looked at silver shoes. 4-Euro bottles of Chianti, a can of Hell Bier, naked skeletal trees by still rivers that waft ... http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz/2008/04/08/murano-moments/ All roads lead to Rome, they say, and that's where the road (or train tracks at least) was leading me at the bright and glorious hour of 6.45 a.m. as I trudged across Florence to hop my Eurostar to Roma Termini. I entered Rome in a sleepy haze to the ... http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz/2008/04/08/roaming-rome/ On speaking (or not speaking) Italian: I’m sure I conjugated all my verbs perfectly on the quiz I just took an hour ago, but I am RUBBISH at actually speaking Italian. Perche? I just told the guy in the park that it was fifty minutes to one instead of fifteen, ... http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz/2008/04/08/parli-italiano/ There's a grandeur in the streets that's still echoed somehow, maybe from stones steeped in two thousand years of history and civilization. I don't feel quite as able to be a scruffy college student here, although I can't help being one anyway. But I crave the elegant leather boots that ... http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz/2008/04/07/touchdown-firenze/ Who doesn’t want to see a massive flower that smells like carrion? Our one day in Kota Kinabalu saw me and Tim from the Netherlands attempting to hustle our way to Tambunan to catch a glimpse of the elusive (although large) Rafflesia. I kicked off the day by making a ... http://travelpunk.com/blogs/freespiritz/2008/04/07/random-borneo-excerpt/