Anners’ World Tour*

Outside of possibly being open to having a new boyfriend and not flunking out of Grad School (I start in like three weeks so if I happen to fall off the face of the internets sometime around then, you’ll know why), I don’t really have any New Year’s resolutions.   I don’t even like January first because it’s stupid.  I do like that the month is named after Janus, the Roman god with two heads (one facing the future and one facing the past), but that’s about it.  Last year was nasty in so many ways, so I am fairly happy to see it go.  Oh wait:  I also met a bunch of hot bytches on the internets, so maybe it wasn’t as nasty as I originally thought.  

This post isn’t about New Year’s.   It’s about my travel bug.  I’ve been trying to get to Europe for about three years and  I sincerely hope that it happens this summer.   If not, I still have The Grand Canyon trip to look forward to (avec Daners) and possibly a trip to New York with my BFF from work, Nadia. 

This post shall serve as my ode to Europe.

The picture above is from a lovely place called Damascus.  Last I heard, it was the oldest continuously inhabited city on the face of the earth.   Congratulations, Damascus!   You’re the hottest old bytch ever.  Look at how pretty that picture is!   Is it a sunrise or a sunset, though?  Sometimes I’m really stupid.  Whatever’s happening here, it would be nice if I was there with my as-yet-unknown husband *cough*Orlando Bloom*cough*, and he was holding me in his arms and whispering sweet niftings into my ear.

* Entirely virtual

 

This is London.   I really want to go here.  I want to go to the British Museum and ask them to kindly return the “Elgin Marbles” back to Athens where they ephing belong.  

Then I want to go shopping and see various things. 

 Paris!  I will come armed with about 2 years of high school French and a semester in college. 

I’m totes going to the Louvre and the Latin Quarter.  And that cemetary where Jim Morrison is buried.   Just kidding! 

^ Still Paris. 

Now onto Istanbul!

I think I am going to love it here.  The water is really blue and it’s on the Bosphorus.   I lovvvve that word.  “Bosphorus”.  Means crossing of the cow or something.  Old story.   

My favorite Roman emperor, Constantine the Great moved the capital of the empire here in the 4th century AD.   I love Constantine.   

 

^ Cistern underneath the basilica.

Now Florence.

^ So pretty.

^ David lives here. 

This is Epehesus:

^ Temple of Bacchus.  Baalbak, Lebanon.

^ Rome is going to make me cry.

 I also must go to Athens.  God bless the Greeks for Tragedy, Philosophy, and Mythology.