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Home From Rome

June 23, 2009 by Gail

My friend scored this heavy-duty pasta maker at a flea market on Sunday, which is doubly brilliant because we couldn’t find a similar model new anywhere in Rome. This thing weighs a tonne! My bag was less than 10kgs when I flew to Vienna, and it weighed in at more than 15kgs from Rome. The only other stuff I bought was lightweight, so the pasta maker must weigh around 5kgs!

home from Italy with a pasta maker

My flight from Rome was due to arrive at 10:15pm Monday night but touched down about half an hour earlier, time savings that was gobbled up by a long wait at the carousel for my one bag, and the misfortune of shedding ONE too many keys off my keychain when I left for Europe, which meant that I got in my front door but locked myself out of my apartment with cats wailing on the other side!

A couple of hours later I finally crossed the threshold of my doorway and was greeted by the furry gatekeepers.

we smell cat

Backing up photos now and then some sleep before work. 

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4 Comments »

  1. Kimberly says:

    We have a pasta machine like that one. It’s awesome! Welcome home! What’s with you and getting locked out (or in!)?

    • Gail says:

      What can I say, I have TOO MANY KEYS! And they keep getting changed around here and look awfully alike, which means I need to get some of those coloured rubber key thingies to clearly identify each.

  2. Fancy says:

    Yay, you’re back! And your picture of your beasties is making my heart ache for my own wee tyrants :)

    You always seem to have some story about keys in your house that is terrible at the time, but amusing later on…Is this a chronic issue? :D

  3. Nigel Babu says:

    Your love/hate relationship with keys goes on I guess :)
    .-= Nigel Babu´s last blog ..Birthday Mania =-.

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