Pretravel Jitters!

Normally pre - something jitters are to do with marriage, however in this case it was just a chronic case of my over zealous credit provider immobilising my 28degrees credit card each time I booked an internal flight in Italy or a sight seeing tour.. Thursday night turned into Friday morning far too rapidly as I tried to rectify the situation. I spent Friday impersonating Easter Bunny for my Year 3/4 class whilst dealing with texts and phone calls from 28degrees surreptitiously.

 The day was a whirlwind of chocolate and tears, I'm proud to say that none of them were mine. I am saving my sugar intake for either Paris or Sicily and my tears for when I see Eric reunite with his cousins in Treviso. Dammit I just caught myself out in a lie, I did eat a homemade macaroon made by a wee snippet from the class next door. I told her in all seriousness that I would be judging her effort with those from  Laduree in Paris!

After printing out a detailed 1kg itinerary I raced off to the bank where I expected to get a better bang for my buck than the money exchange. But I was wrong they were offering me less, I gave the teller a little pep talk on how the bank should be supporting not rorting their customers and trotted off down Spence Street to Western Union who are apparently the bees knees in high end finance. After losing $600 converting my hard earned dollars into a meagre stash of cash I needed to catch up with my self proclaimed inspiration big sister Lineke.

We met excitedly at Noa for $10 cocktails and tapas, we each had a friend with us so it was a rather jolly way to end the term and welcome the holidays. My tipple of choice was a Clover Something, quite nice but not something to re-order. However my sister's Caprioska was superb and I had drink envy. Some tasty tapa's were shared,  me being predictable and ordering the aubergine fries, my sis being very adventurous ordering cute bread baked in a terracotta pot. My friend who is very restrained ordering nothing as she had a date with lover-boy! My sister's gusto for exploring the menu and her dance moves were once again an inspiration and the wait staff now see her as a regular. We came here a fortnight ago for the 3rd of my birthday events (on one day) and ever since it has been her regular Friday hangout!