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Lazarus Bocanegra

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  1. We have just returned from our trip. I am going to need a few days to collect my thoughts, but suffice it to say we had a wonderful time. 2 full days in Florence, long weekend in Rome (with palm sunday at Ninfa Gardens/Sicily-Rome American Cemetery/Anzio), and 4.5 days in Napoli.

    More to come as I curate the 1600 photos. Napoli was as incredible as I’d hoped. If you are only stopping through en route to Amalfi/Capri etc/points furthet south, you are missing out. We booked a food tour through Culinary Backstreets that I can’t speak highly enough about. I will gladly seek out their offerings in other cities, and wouldn’t balk at doing the tour in Napoli again.

    Pos rep to PW for some solid recs. The margherita at 50 Kalo on our pilgrim route to Virgil’s Tomb was a masterpiece of simplicity that will live in my dreams until I die. Butter chicken at Sostanza in Florence will be something I feebly attempt to recreate for the rest of my days. Lmk if any of you assholes has an olive grove

    I could use a steaming hot cup of octopus broth right about now.

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  2. We visited Escorial and Segovia.  Both were great.  In Madrid, I recommend the Museo de las Americas.  It's basically all of the plundered antiquities of the new world.  And a very enlightening exhibit on race-mixing.  And shrunken heads

     

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  3. On 2/22/2024 at 10:16 AM, LCHorn said:

    Now that you’ve been, what’s your food recs for Madrid?  We’re spending a month there July-Aug with the kids.

    casa paco 

    pa pizza off the puerta del sol 

    chocolateria san gines for churros & chocolate 

    all of the other nameless places with croquetas y cervezas 

     

  4. On 1/27/2024 at 3:18 PM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

     

    I want to add 3 more this year.  I'm going to hit Germany and Austria.  I feel like I might do something in Central America.  Anyone have recommendations?

    Guatemala.  Antigua, Atitlan, Huehuetenango

  5. On 12/30/2023 at 8:25 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    So there’s a troublesome rogue coyote in my neighborhood and it has killed a lot of cats. 
    Let’s say, purely conjecture, that someone was to set up a one-shot kill from 75 yards on the SOB. What would be the best and most ethical round to attempt such a thing in a dense urban environment? 

    Assume pre-dawn timing. Looking for pros/cons of:

    .22lr suppressed 

    .17HMR suppressed

    5.7X28 carbine surpressed 

    .223 Rem

    imperatives include:

    1) quick, ethical kill

    2) avoiding a disturbance 


    To be clear, this is a purely speculative scenario 

    can I borrow this coyote? 

     

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  6. 4 hours ago, texasdago said:

    Just trying to process these words while not trying to think of Gomorrah.  

    Why not take a boat over to Procida for a day if the weather is nice?  Not sure how much is open... ask your hotel.

    There's supposed to be a Scampia tour that postures itself as  "this is not Gomorrah" that is supposed to be cool but I prefer the grittier depiction where they murder women and children in cold blood

    I'm thinking we'll leave one of later days open in the event the weather is nice to take a boat trip.  Procida looks interesting.  

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  7. we're booked for ten days in March.  Florence > Rome > Naples.  We've got friends living in Rome, so we structured the trip to spend a few days Florence, extended weekend in Rome, and a few days in Naples.  The vagaries of the calendar being what they are, we elected to head straight to Florence after landing in Rome so as not to burn an additional day travelling. 

    Question for the initiated:  how long should I anticipate it will take to clear customs at Fiumicino?  

    We booked one of the Florence in a day tours to bang out the big hits on day 1 so we can spend the other days getting lost and eating 

    Coliseum Underground and Pristine Sistine booked as well so we can bang out this hits and spend the rest of the time getting lost and eating

    Only thing we've booked in Napoli is a culinary backstreets tour the internet seems to think highly of.  National Museum, Herculaneum, Statue of the Veiled Christ on the agenda.  Probably won't have time to visit Secondigliano, much to my chagrine <sucks teeth>. rest of the time getting lost and eating

    Open to recs, mofos 

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