Achtung Bitte...
Well after a longer-than-it-was-supposed-to-be layover in Frankfurt and 12 hours of people speaking German to me, I am now safe and sound in Italian speaking Torino.
It's been a mess trying to get everything together here. There was confusion with my room, took forever to find the accreditation office, got kicked out of the IOC office because they said I wasn't supposed to be there, but I was...it was the office I needed, the guy just didn't know it. Then when I got back I found a puddle in my room because I turned the heat off. Throw in the language barrier and you have an adventure.
Internet access at the media village is €15/Day or €40/week. Yikes! And you can only pay with official Olympic sponsor, Visa.
Hopefully tomorrow is better...maybe a beer and some sleep.
Ciao.
It's been a mess trying to get everything together here. There was confusion with my room, took forever to find the accreditation office, got kicked out of the IOC office because they said I wasn't supposed to be there, but I was...it was the office I needed, the guy just didn't know it. Then when I got back I found a puddle in my room because I turned the heat off. Throw in the language barrier and you have an adventure.
Internet access at the media village is €15/Day or €40/week. Yikes! And you can only pay with official Olympic sponsor, Visa.
Hopefully tomorrow is better...maybe a beer and some sleep.
Ciao.
posted by Mike Laverdiere at 2/07/2006 09:49:00 PM
4 Comments:
Good to hear that you made it to Turin/Torino safe and sound.
It's outrageous that net access is so expensive. Did you bring the laptop? Can you poach wifi?
Keep the tales coming...
Cheers!
Doug
Hi Bro,
I am proud to have such a cool bro. I sent you an update on my not so far away adventures. Maybe I will (mine kinda lame)even blog it. Keep the writing so that I can travel with you. Remember to have fun and SEE THE SITES. I always wanted to go to italy. So take you video cam. Do they blow glass there? I Luv ya, Sis Chelly
Hey Mike:
Glad you made it to the Land of Pizza. Hopefully you'll be able to open this link. It seems that Wayne Gretzky's wife is being investigated in a alleged gambling investigation.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2322234
l'uomo, quello sembra costoso!
whats that, like $55 CAD??
yikes!
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