I got up fairly early with the plan to go to La Spezia and do a bit of clothes shopping. I got to the train station about 10 am with no idea when the train comes. I figure at worst it’s once every hour…It is once every hour. Every hour EXCEPT the 10 o clock hour. So I have time to kill until 11:44. So I spent an hour and a half walking around the Massa train station. I did find a movie theatre in town. They seem to have 2 screens. So if I get desperate for a movie, any movie I know where to go. It will be in Italian…
I wandered past a movie rental store and went in. They also sell some videos and I found some documentary titled “I Sudditi del signore degli Anelli – Tutto Quello che Ancora non Sapete Sull Saga di Tokien e i Suolfan” or “The subjects of the Lord of the Rings – all those who do not know about Saga Tokien and Suolfan” (I have no idea what Suolfan is supposed to translate to – super fan or something).
A docu about the Lord of the Ring geeks. It got several film festival nominations…including the South Pole International Film Festival…what?!?…(my speculation – Previous winner “March of the Penguins”?)
My favorite part is that it has audio in Inglese, Francese, or Spagnolo (with subtitles in about 2o languages). So how does Italy rate? They were big enough to get their own packaging on this DVD, but not big enough to hire 12 people to do voiceover work…They could have gotten college interns or something to do it for free…
Haven’t watched it yet…
I did make it to La Spezia.
Here’s my free tip for americans travelling in Europe. Sometimes a city will have 2 or more train stops in a single city…This means if you need to get off at La Spezia CENTRALE don’t get off at La Spezia non-Centrale (whatever it was called).
Trains are cool. I went from Salem to Seattle several times when I was still in the States. It is a great trip. I recommend train travel to america…
Apparently I’m going to have to make a ramblings category as well 😉 as that seems to be what I’m doing now.
OK made it to La Spezia Centrale (it wasn’t me that got off at the wrong station, but two other americans on the train – I know the game). I wasn’t expecting for the stores to close for siesta. I think when I was in La Spezia in May they didn’t do that, but I could be wrong. The restaurants did, but that’s to be expected.
Anyway I mainly went to La Spezia to shop a bit as most of my clothes are still in ffm. I didn’t feel like hanging out for siesta so I came back and hung out here instead.
This seems like a really long entry to basically say I rode a train and walked around a bit…
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“The subjects of the Lord of the Rings – all those who do not know about Saga Tokien and Suolfan”
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