Ok I know I know, I am Dreadfully behind so I am going to do this quick and easy like ripping off a bandaid. Also, what better procrastination during finals “Oh no but I’m really being productive, I’m updating my blog.” Yes I am just saying that so I can feel better about having a design block, or perhaps it’s the realization that it’s 3 am, I’m doing laundry and can’t sleep anyways. Hm maybe I should get to the pictures, I know that’s why you guys are here anyways not to read this babbling.
So we went to this town Lecce which has all these super detail church facades and old stuff from these Roman dudes who seem to leave stuff everywhere I’ve been. And! they had a place with this really good “rustic pizza” that was like mozzarella and tomato in a phyllo like dough that was all gooey and delicious and hard to eat as they giggled as I failed miserably. The place also had candy bar flavored gelato like kinder and mars bar!
Finally we escaped the teeny towns to stay in the Sassi, the embarrassment of Italy in the 50s. People living with animals in caves! So then they moved them into government housing which we actually learned about monday in class, and they were pretty cool architecturally at least, planned based on the community style living and in these clusters based on the landscape. We sure didn’t get that opinion of them when we talked to the people there. It is amazing to see though. All of these places carved out of the hills, even churches mimicking styles of the popular architecture at the time even though they were carving it in the caves.
Enough babbling? maybe. ok Spain pictures next…. well maybe I’ll save that for procrastination tomorrow when I can’t sleep.