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soneedthistrip Aug 9th, 2006 04:06 PM

last night
 
Last night in Rome, leaving from fiumicino. Anne's place is booked.. where would you recommend staying?

starrsville Aug 9th, 2006 04:14 PM

Oh, darn! I thought this was going to be beginning of a VERY good trip report!

Sorry, can't help you with your question.

janisj Aug 9th, 2006 04:20 PM

starrsville: Me too ! :)

so need this trip: You so need a better title.

soneedthistrip Aug 9th, 2006 04:24 PM

Why? I do need this trip more than you can know.

janisj Aug 9th, 2006 04:39 PM

&quot;<i>Why?</i>&quot;

because &quot;last night&quot; does not tell anyone what info you need, that you are asking about Rome -- or even Italy for that matter.

Try something like: &quot;Where to stay last night before flight out of fiumicino?&quot;

tondalaya Aug 9th, 2006 04:44 PM

Last night, I .......

starrsville Aug 9th, 2006 04:51 PM

discovered that my...

francophile03 Aug 9th, 2006 04:52 PM

last night was really my last day and...

chicagolori Aug 9th, 2006 05:29 PM

got really drunk...

starrsville Aug 9th, 2006 05:33 PM

...and lost Anne's place...

Girlspytravel Aug 9th, 2006 08:09 PM

leaving from Fiumicino to Ciampino

Scarlett Aug 9th, 2006 08:17 PM

last night I thought I would be staying home but now I hear otherwise......

Dukey Aug 10th, 2006 12:41 AM

because last night that plot was discovered...

buttoncat Aug 10th, 2006 01:16 AM

...and tomorrow we go to the zoo. You people are all bonkers! ROTFL. Funny what a good terrorist threat will do to a group of fairly normal people...

tara3056 Aug 10th, 2006 02:05 AM

I'm supposed to meet <i>him</i> by the monkey cage, but I'm a little concerned because

carylspall Aug 10th, 2006 05:19 AM

...what if I cant tell them apart....

Dukey Aug 10th, 2006 05:25 AM

since we all know how much I adore hairy men...

GreenDragon Aug 10th, 2006 05:54 AM

...so I can run my hands through the thick curls and...

LN Aug 10th, 2006 06:20 AM

and stare into his BIG, sexy eyes

carylspall Aug 10th, 2006 06:21 AM

get myself tied up in knots!

GreenDragon Aug 10th, 2006 06:45 AM

which were very hard to untie when he left...

seetheworld Aug 10th, 2006 06:47 AM

Who told you about the blindfold???

Sarvowinner Aug 10th, 2006 06:49 AM

Which was made from gossamer silk

LN Aug 10th, 2006 07:09 AM

A blindfold should always be silk

carylspall Aug 10th, 2006 07:18 AM

Just at that moment the zoo keeper arrived to reclaim his neck scarf...

Girlspytravel Aug 10th, 2006 07:24 AM

stop-you're killing me!

Curt Aug 10th, 2006 07:24 AM

and the girl in the red dress, with the small barking dog, appeared at the corner

francophile03 Aug 10th, 2006 07:32 AM

...with a gelato from Giolitti and...

Girlspytravel Aug 10th, 2006 07:35 AM

but the zookeeper was nowhere to be seen...

wanderlust5 Aug 10th, 2006 07:59 AM


This is a truly inspiring group of posts that have me laughing like mad.

And I am a writer.

SO I can really enjoy the purple prose and hyperbole.

Hilarious!

Here is my attempt at working with the bones of sentences you people have provided, and adding a little twist of my own...


&quot;Last night, I decided to return to the zoo. Where I had first met him. By the monkey cage. It was his eyes. His big, sexy eyes. And the scarf. I had to get my hands on that beautiful scarf.

If I gave him what he wanted, perhaps I could snatch the scarf from him. I had no idea he was a thief, and the beautiful gossamer scarf wrapped around his hairy neck really belonged to the zoo keeper, who had inherited it from his mother, a famous Parisian model.

And I had no idea that the Zoo Keeper would return to claim the scarf, long after my mystery man had left me by climbing over the fence into the monkey cage. He left me standing there, clinging to the scarf as I imagined how beautiful I would look wearing it with my red silk dress to the Embassy party.

As I turned to leave, I met the eyes of a crazed, angry man. The Zoo Keeper! He snatched the end of the scarf and tugged on it, as I struggled to keep control of the delicate fabric.

Taking that scarf was the stupidest thing I had ever done, and now I was going to pay the price.&quot;

Michel_Paris Aug 10th, 2006 08:06 AM

I ran to the train station, hoping to escape to the villa, but I then remebered the strike..lighting a cigarette, I decided to...

carylspall Aug 10th, 2006 10:43 AM

go into the neon-lit bar just a few yards away. I could see the flashing sign with my good eye (the other one being glass),it said &quot;The Monkeys Haunt&quot;except some of the lights were fused and it read &quot;Mones Hat&quot;.
The taste of the nicotine had made me yearn for my favourite tipple..... .

Michel_Paris Aug 10th, 2006 11:09 AM

I looked around the room for Giani, bootlegger and sometime pirate, whose elixir was known to make grown men cry, and women scream...

FainaAgain Aug 10th, 2006 11:13 AM

I thought this would be a post from someone who gave up trying to fly out of London!

Starr, Janis, go wash your minds with soap :))

wanderlust5 Aug 10th, 2006 11:29 AM

This is making me smile all afternoon, everytime I check for a new post... :-)

domino22314 Aug 10th, 2006 11:32 AM

Poor &quot;soneedthistrip&quot;. You didn't get a reply. I had this same request (not last night but last night in Rome) and decided to stay in the Hotel Santa Maria in Tresteverde. It's a lovely hotel. Easy transfer to/from airport and good restaurants nearby.

I had thought to go out away from the city. I fly into airport from Palermo and out the next morning. But it proved to be way too complicated. I am happy with my decision.

Hope this helps

carylspall Aug 10th, 2006 11:40 AM

Been helping my husband put a new roof on the shed(I hate playing labourer) and coming back on here for some escapism.
Are we finished now then?

Girlspytravel Aug 10th, 2006 11:43 AM

&quot;see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil&quot; she repeated, waiting in line...

carylspall Aug 10th, 2006 12:10 PM

&quot;She&quot; was the most glamorous creature I had ever seen . She was everything I wanted to be -except- why did she keep chanting !
When I looked at her red dress I realised it was the exact same as the one hanging in my closet! The very dress I intended wearing to the Embassy party.
I tried to crumple the silk scarf into the palm so she didnt see it.
She was still chanting!Had she drunk too much of Giani's elixir?

Dukey Aug 10th, 2006 12:12 PM

Then all of a sudden...


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