19 September 2007 · Comment [3]
I'm in Santorini, loafing around on the internet for hours on end!
Hey, yeah, Santorini! It only took us 51 hours of travel time, but we finally got here and it’s every bit as gorgeous as I’d been hoping since I saw the first awesome picture of it in the Reprint Mint in Berkeley. Oh curses, now I miss Berkeley. And Intermezzo salads and riding Suzanne’s old bike home and then loafing around on the internet for forever and watching The Office and listening to this song like every half hour:
Awww, Al showed me that song and now I miss Al and his fantastically freaky doodles. It’s going to be really nice to settle in to Barcelona and have a home for a while. Also, seeing Duncan for the first time in a month on Saturday! Awesomepants. Okay, pictures. I just cleaned my backup memory card out onto flickr, so there are some bonus pictures from the beginning of the trip.
This is the jungle in Cambodia from the time when I climbed that hill before dawn to watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat. I don’t really understand what’s going on in the background. I think it’s the jungle stretching out forever, but it could also be some crazy, straight cloud. Probably the jungle, though.
This is more of that temple that was at the top of the hill. Yep.
It’s Jovanna! And the place where we had dinner tonight in Oia, which is the part of Santorini where all the ridiculously pretty pictures get taken. I finally got dolmas! Which are surprisingly elusive considering this is their country. Hopefully they’ll abound in New York. Whenever I get sad about leaving a country because I really like its food I just remember that I’ll be living in New York in a couple months, where you can get literally every kind of food that exists in the world and it’s all completely delicious! Don’t you dare crush my dreams. Also, just found this video about Google New York:
Better be awesome or someone’s getting a talking to.
Another building corner! Just in case you didn’t get enough the first time around.
Some stairs in Oia. See, I’m trying to be less anal retentive about what pictures I keep, because that black line totally would have been a deal-breaker before. Maybe I’ll figure out how to photoshop it out when I get home and have all that free time on my hands. Ahahahahaha.
A door in Oia! Think maybe that wall part should get cropped out eventually.
Some steps in Oia! Way to really care about making every little thing perfect, Santorini.
A dog! In Oia. There are all these adorable dogs all over the place in Santorini and every time Jovanna sees one, her voice gets all high-pitched and she talks about buying a million dogs.
More of Oia! Did you know that the reason the Greek islands made all these twisty, art-decoey towns was to confuse invading pirates so they’d be easier to take down? I learned that from the guidebook. And today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, so how neat is that.
More steps in Oia! Yep. Also apparently you say it ee-ah, not oh-ee-ah, because I’m sure you were wondering.
Another old picture! From the temple on top of the hill. Which I thiiiink was called Phnom Bakheng. If that’s right, I’m gonna go ahead and wonder how I got so awesome. Probably by researching obsessively for this trip.
And the last old picture! This is from New Zealand, when we went to the Wai-O-Tapu sulphur springs. I don’t know how it was formed but it’s neat.
This is Fira! Or Thira, same thing. Last night at sunset right before we bought these two amaaaazing desserts including the best chocolate cake I have ever had and I’m so excited that there’s some left in the fridge in our hotel room that only cost us 40 euros for a private double! September is definitely the time for going to Greece.
The metro station in Athens where we left at 5 in the morning for the ferry to Santorini! You know why it’s so straight? Because I was so delirious with sleepiness that it cancelled out my natural crookedness angle to make a straight picture! Neat.
Some fruit in a market in Sarajevo! Thanks for saying such a nice thing about this one, Catie!
A guy playing chess on a ridiculously oversized chess set in Sarajevo. Tee hee. Also there were guys playing chess in the baths in Budapest. Like, they’d be literally inside the baths and playing chess. Awesome.
And the bridge where World War I started when Franz Ferdinand was shot on it! Who knew some people cared so much about music. Ha ha, I’m precious.
Okay, those are the pictures! I’ll probably take a ton more of Oia tomorrow because that’s pretty much the whole reason why I came here and meanwhile Jovanna will probably work on her skin cancer because that’s pretty much the whole reason why she came here! Just kidding, please don’t ever tell me you have skin cancer or I’ll feel completely awful, Jovanna. Okay, I think 2 am is an appropriate time to call it quits with the internet. Though it really doesn’t matter how badly we mess up our sleep schedules, because our flight to Barcelona leaves at 4:30 in the morning on Saturday and that’s going to mess us up like nobody’s business so we may as well start living like vampires it up now! Awesome, sounds like a plan.
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Dude, I’ve been looking for the all saint’s remix for so long now! I remember when I listened to it a retarded amount on someone’s myspace page, and then the music changed :(
Oh yea, other things look pretty too.
— Jono · Sep 19, 08:22 PM · #
can you bring guests into the google cafeteria?!! if so, take me!! and if not thats ok, i know a great place on 8th av at 20th that has $3 (or $1!?!!) margaritas, all day every day (LIQUID LUNCHES!!!)
ps i meeesssss youuuuuu narrrr.
— al · Sep 24, 01:58 AM · #
hahaha about the skin cancer. I have two thoughts: one, karma. it’s awful. remember that. two, didn’t we decide that you were the one going to get skin cancer cause I’m already tan?! that’s right.
— Jovanna · Sep 24, 10:10 AM · #