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Decameron Day 2. Fools, Drunkards and People with poor judgement.
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Lol what a story! If I was your mother I’d have given you a clip over the ears when you got home!
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Ah, the old lady wasn’t please I can tell you that… thanks for reading Anna!
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A friend and I were just emailing each other “Should we be reading the Decameron?” so thank you.
Are you familiar with https://www.sleepinginairports.net/ ? Or perhaps you are secretly the author of it?
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You’re welcome 🙂 I find a nice escapade from reality.
As for sleepinginairports… in my younger years I provided reviews for Bergamo, Malpensa, Vancouver, Yerevan, Tbilisi and I think Osaka Kansai.
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I knew it!
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😀
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Great story!
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Thanks Rich!
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Ha! Makes my Master’s discussione sound so unexciting (but just as boring 🙂 ). Good storytelling; you had me nervous for you all the way even though I knew the outcome!
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Thanks Lexi! I tried to keep a modicum of tension, though it’s debatable whether it worked or not… 🙂
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Phew!
Alison
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Yes indeed!
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Wow what an adventure! Can’t imagine the shouting your parents reserved for you on your return and bet you get a big smile when you hear an Interpol or Chili Peppers song come on the radio!
so how did the thesis discussion go?
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The discussion went well 🙂 Thanks! as for the bollocking… well, because it all ended well my mother remarked I was an idiot and my dad said he wouldn’t have paid for the rescue.
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What a long and difficult way back home! But then more than ten years ago I was also more willing to take more risks than what I can take now. Glad you made it, Fabrizio!
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Thanks Bama. Indeed, the more I age the more I’m willing to spend money to avoid stupid risks or just plain lack of comfort… e.g. sleeping on a floor. Thanks for reading!
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You are one resourceful dude. I can recall my days of sleeping in airports. The pits, indeed.
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The horror. Ah, the horror. BTW has your Peru trip evaporated?
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Oh yes. Peru is out of the question. Will try to go later this year.
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Good luck… mine too 😦
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Oh my goodness, Fabrizio – what a story! Reading that almost made me anxious for your sake. After four and a half years in the U.K., I can tell you that the Brits don’t adapt very well to snow. Just 10 centimeters of the stuff and the whole country shuts down – trains stop running, airplanes are grounded, the highway maintenance crews run out of salt to clear the roads (yes, seriously). This happened one year in late February while I was at uni in the southwest of England (Bath) and they had to cancel classes for three days because the buses couldn’t get up the hill to campus (I kid you not). My English housemates locked themselves indoors and warned me not to go outside because it was dangerous and slippery. Well, I’d just spent Christmas with family in Canada so this was all child’s play. I went out and found Bath to be eerily empty but incredibly beautiful, almost dreamlike – some parts reminded me of Narnia because the trees and quaint vintage lampposts were caked in snow.
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In the past few years, when I was working in the airline business, snow = mayhem. The last thing they had, the ‘Beast from the East’, was managed ever so slightly better, but I remember being on support duty, drafted in from the office to the terminal, when the airport authority just shut everything down during a March “storm” that caused an inch of snow. It was CHAOS. Thanks for reading James!
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Your tale is a fine example of how mankind, somehow, can be simultaneously brilliant and stupid. That one’s often made me scratch my head.
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Indeed.. makes you wonder sometimes. Peak of evolution? Seeeeriously?
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I’m reading your series out of order, but what the hell! For some reason I haven’t been getting notifications. This post is brilliant—had me on the edge of my seat. Your mother was right to ream you out, but glad it ended well!
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Ha! Glad you liked it… it all worked well in the end.
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