Thursday, June 23, 2005

Euro So Far




Euro Trash Tour 2005- Roma!!!!!
From Africa-London-Switzerland-Italy. Its only begun really. It was great to see everyone in london and take Daniel away from the computer for a while. Then out to the Alps in Switzerland with Silvia, still the same after 9 years (fabulous host). Love the food and scenery there. We went snake hunting in the alps and found 5 vipers and then had to count how many babies were inside them and weight them. Good therapy to get over snakes. Then off to sweaty Italy starting in Venice. The Biennale was wicked, took 3 days to get around all of it, so much art from different countries. NZ's Et al was interesting with great international comments like 'You dark kiwi wankers' and 'What the f++k is this art shit'. Quite amusing. Then to Roma. Stinking hot and full of enormous tour groups. Once we found our fake Prada and Gucchi Euro Shades, we felt more at home. tried to see as much as we could bare due to the 2km long lines of tourists, no Sistine chapel or Vatican museum this time, maybe in winter. Then to top off the euro trash tour, Duran Duran played for free with Beck and Elisa (Italy's Alannis Morriset). So we grabbed our euro shades and sprinted downtown to get amongst it. Beck was great (had already gone to him in London, so double bonus) , But the Italians went crazy over Elisa and when duran duran came out, well it was almost spiritual. the crowd exploded as soon as 'Notorious' started. DD were still in shape (just) , and even had time for a costume change while playing all the hits like, Hungry like the wolf, Rio,The Reflex, it was excellent. Just hanging around in Switzerland now and will be heading out to Budapest, Krakow,Warsaw and Prague from tomorrow. Might try out
Slovenia if I have time.

Big thanks to Brooke and Margot for the contacts in Italy and Eastern Europe. Really appreciate that.

Off East now.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi guys....wondring if we can stock ur fab tees?

1:43 am GMT  
Blogger Damen said...

Who are you?!

1:38 pm GMT  

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