humor
Between language barriers, culture wars, and strange people at the airport, your trip is bound to be rife with laughter.
How to Buy A Stamp in Rome
Upon entering the post office on Via Marsala near Termini Station, I see that I have to take a ticket number printed out by a large yellow machine. I need to pick from one of three types: A, E, or P. I smile coyly at an elderly gentleman, and say, “Non capisco come farlo,” I don’t know how to do it. Without moving an extra molecule of muscle besides what’s essential to speak, he says in perfect monotone, “Prendi un numero.” Take a number.
By Terianne Falcone6 years ago in Wander
Northbridge
By day, an empty hub of Cafe's, Restaurants and Bars that can somehow afford to operate in the daytime. Urban Clothing boutiques that fall as quickly as they rise, The hustling vibe of the next door Techinical College TAFE that the uni kids mock but end up being more employable then them and with a quater of the debt. The state Library that only foreign students, immigrants and old people use as an actual library while the rest just use as a shortcut to the train station and to town. the road and pressed cobblestones that get harder as opposed to weaker over time and a long road of parked cars that people use erely as free parking because of option A; note enough parking in the middle of the city or B; too cheap to pay $4 hour parking.
By Michael Guerrini6 years ago in Wander
That Time I Ended Up in a Nepalese Drug Den
I was in a courtyard. There was no ceiling. I had arrived here by tunnel, obviously. The walls were indented with booths, like a Mos Eisley Cantina. There wasn’t much here, but there were a fuck-tonne of drug dealers. Shady characters hunched over shady tables, making shady deals, in their shady enclaves. It was a stinking pile of villainous scum.
By Ethan Taylor6 years ago in Wander
Best Places to Cry in LA
1. Your car. A seminal classic. A rite of passage. Take advantage of one of the innumerable freeways and interchanges, and treat yourself to a cathartic and potentially hazardous emotional upheaval. The 10. The 5. The 101. The 60. The 405. The plethora of choices is overwhelming but the possibilities are endless. Will a famous director spot you from his Tesla and realize you are the muse for his new star vehicle while he sees you sobbing in yours? Will you rear-end Kim Kardashian? Will you get rear-ended by the love of your life in the most quintessentially LA meet-cute of all time? Get more bang for your buck from the leased 2018 Nissan Versa that you somehow procured on a wing and a prayer even though your credit score doesn’t break 600. The most important component to your breakdown on-the-go is the accompanying music. The soundtracks to the musicals Dear Evan Hansen, Waitress, and High Fidelity do nicely, but it’s dealer’s choice. And in LA traffic, you’ll have plenty of time.
By Sarah Lynn Robinson6 years ago in Wander
Withering Heights
“Can you write a guest blog for me please?” It sounded so simple, I thought. Just jot down some thoughts, make it funny, informative, and appealing, job done. Well, let me tell you, it’s not as easy as bloggers make it look! They say the hardest part about writing a story is in finding the beginning, because you have to decide what to write about, how you’re going to say it and where you want the tale to go; but for me, that was the easy part. Easy, because I’ve decided to tell you a tale from when I worked on cruise ships traveling the world, meeting interesting people and getting into all kinds of madcap trouble, but difficult because I not only have to protect the innocent by not revealing their names but, also have to decide exactly how honest to be about the guilty, or “me” as I’m also known… so here goes, and I hope you like it!
By Nathan Kennedy6 years ago in Wander
