Piano bars and the Pope (6)

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Posted by Corner on Sun 8 Apr 07, 11:10 PM

Its seven days since our return from Rome, that's seven days of mania that has stopped us both from posting about it! Seems like the thee days away cost us seven days of Sh*t.

Early away from work on Thursday, “Yay” Headed to the airport and flew with no problems! A major achievement for a flight with k. We caught the Terrervision bus into Romes centre, I had visions of a tour bus manned by rock stars but no, it wasn't so. Not a drop of tequila to “make me happy” was to be seen.

Next step was to find a taxi to the hotel, first shyster 20-25 Euro's haha At the second attempt k secured a metered cabbie, total bill 6 Euro.

In Rome even the doorman has a super hero's cape, this gave me the feeling I was walking around in some surreal hotel world populated by Mexican wrestlers. So explore the rooms and k has done us proud again, if you ever need a room booked k has an ability to find the best.

Friday sees us randomly bimbling around Rome on foot with no plan of action and we cover a lot of ground and see countless old buildings and church's. A strange thing happened then it seems that k became allergic to anything that wasn't pizza or red wine! Damned if I can figure that one out.

Saturday and with the help of a tour bus we get to see parts of the city we hadn't reached. Now, the churches etc of the day before had been OK but nothing that got me jumping. However, one road running from the Forum to the Colosseum had my chin dragging the cobbles. Stunning 1900yr old buildings and excavations but as usual in the back of this irreverent brain Frankie Howerd was peppering the gob smacking vistas with double entendres.

Next the Vatican. Big ornate building built on the “donated” peso/pennies of the very poor.

Back to the Colosseum and a twenty minute wait sees us inside this icon of the Roman era. Very little imagination is needed to fill the building with blood thirsty spectators and leather clad fighters. It seems that every visitor is constructing a vision of this place1900 yrs ago, k's is pizza and wine!

We celebrate another year under my belt by eating across the square from the Pantheon. Any comments about Rome acquiring another ruin can be kept to yourselves! A strange appearance of pizza and wine again.... 10:30ish we wonder towards the hotel looking for further red wine drinking. k stops, and darts into a door stating “dancing! must be a good bar.” Two very expensive glass's of wine later we turn and notice two large brass poles on a podium and an assortment of Romes aged gents being courted by young women. It seems that some things in this city don't change.

Sunday sees us packing and heading into the town centre and a trip out of town to see more old and leaning buildings. We got grand stand view of an Italian argument, we arrived at ten when it had been going for an hour. We wondered away for an hours coffee and people watching only to return to the argument still rumbling on, only now the police were involved. Classic gesticulation and flouncing from all involved in this marathon dispute. Finally at 11:30 the argument was concluded and we were allowed onto the bus. Wonderful Italian countryside followed with catacomb's, ruins and old roads aplenty. Still the highlight was seeing (as every schoolboy is taught) the viaducts standing tall and marching from Rome to the hills.

Then eat....pizza and drink wine and secure passage on the Terrervision bus, still no Tequila but now I don't need to be made happy.

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9 Apr 07, 9:34 AM
northernwench
UK, 3 yrs
sounds absolutely wonderful honey...did K not lean on any ancient building accidentally and cause it to topple, or use a gesture by accident that is supposed to mean 'can we have the bill' and instead means 'the team you support is full of arse shagging big jessies'

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9 Apr 07, 10:46 AM
Corner
UK, 3 yrs

northernwench wrote:
sounds absolutely wonderful honey...did K not lean on any ancient building accidentally and cause it to topple, or use a gesture by accident that is supposed to mean 'can we have the bill' and instead means 'the team you support is full of arse shagging big jessies'

It was an absolutely TFH and incident free few days! Given the fact that we arrived between Scotland and Manchester playing, the gesture "team you support is full of arse shagging big jessies" would/should normally have surfaced but didn't.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. (George Bernard Shaw)

9 Apr 07, 12:03 PM
t_judd
UK(BN), 5 yrs
Sounds a great break. How did you manage to stop the usual K disasters happening, that usually add excitement to trips?
Why is it that Italian red wine seems to taste better there?

9 Apr 07, 5:38 PM
pam_minxy
UK, 6 yrs

Corner wrote:
10:30ish we wonder towards the hotel looking for further red wine drinking. k stops, and darts into a door stating “dancing! must be a good bar.” Two very expensive glass's of wine later we turn and notice two large brass poles on a podium and an assortment of Romes aged gents being courted by young women.
yeah yeah "i didn't notice it was a strip club officer honest"
honestly you are allowed to go in them
glad ya had a great time and happy belated birthday
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9 Apr 07, 11:52 PM
krystle
UK(NE), 5 yrs

pam_minxy wrote:

Corner wrote:
10:30ish we wonder towards the hotel looking for further red wine drinking. k stops, and darts into a door stating “dancing! must be a good bar.” Two very expensive glass's of wine later we turn and notice two large brass poles on a podium and an assortment of Romes aged gents being courted by young women.
yeah yeah "i didn't notice it was a strip club officer honest"
honestly you are allowed to go in them
glad ya had a great time and happy belated birthday

thanks xx
but, he didnt quite tell the *entire* story there tho. It looked like a really nice wine bar with live piano playing from the outside.
Inside, we get to the bar, and MrMafiaBarMan with menacing face serves us two teeny glasses of wine, then announces "30 euros pliz!"
30 Euros= £24 (ish), but with mafia types gazing from all sides, we paid it and went off to hide in a corner.
Had there actually been any pole-dancing/strippers i might have felt we had some value, but instead we got to watch gorgeous young hostesses drape themselves round fat old men who couldnt dance. The piano player's rendition of Neil Diamond wasnt great either.. Im still trying to fathom " I WANT YOUR BOOOOOOOOSH". And neither of us dared eat the bowl of nibbles that materialised in front of us, in case we had to pay another 20 euros.
But!! It was funny... we laughed non-stop (some of us more hysterically than others), and the whole weekend was just brilliant. I absolutely love, love Rome, it was stunning! And of course any time away from TFH is heaven.
And no. I didnt break anything, knock anything over, spill anything, or damage a major landmark or the Pope. But then some would be disappointed with the latter

11 Apr 07, 2:22 AM
pam_minxy
UK, 6 yrs

yeah but have you been to pisa?
would the tower survive?
for next holidays exciting episode (and what hotles to book) read the next exciting episode of corner and krys on hol
bloody heell enid blyton, pratchett and ernie wise made a fortune, let alone the nice little earner made by the guy what wroted " arguements i had with my girlfriend"
what price Krys "a life of mishaps and thsoe who laugh with her"
see ya at the reunion
hope there aint a black and white beanie - dunno if i can keep the matches away
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