# posts

id: 116102331922653670
created_at: 2026-02-20 09:49:52.471000+00:00
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<p>Hallo from München! Ken and I are on our way to Rome for a few days, then a cruise around the northern Mediterranean, then to Madrid. I'll be posting photos and postcard thoughts to this thread.</p>


id: 116107607345280982
created_at: 2026-02-21 08:11:29.035000+00:00
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<p>Successful first day. Flight issues thanks to snow in Munich but we got to Rome in plenty of time to enjoy a lovely dinner at <a href="https://www.babetteristorante.it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Babette</a>. Highlight was the ravioli with mozzarella and a little anchovy inside in a yummy butter sauce.</p>


id: 116109628270209866
created_at: 2026-02-21 16:45:25.890000+00:00
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<p>Today's outing to the Vatican Museums was too much. It's a very demanding place and surprisingly uninteresting! Maybe that was just us being cranky from the crowds. But there are some lovely things there, some snaps.</p>


id: 116109650874298827
created_at: 2026-02-21 16:51:10.813000+00:00
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<p>Our hotel is near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_del_Popolo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Piazza del Popolo</a>. It's a lively space for people, I particularly enjoyed this busker blowing giant soap bubbles to entertain the crowds.</p>


id: 116115346992173582
created_at: 2026-02-22 16:59:46.672000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116115346992173582
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username: nelson
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<p>The Basilica Santa Maria del Popolo randomly has a couple of Caravaggios, a Raphael sculpture, plus a bunch of remarkable decoration.</p>


id: 116115377348314991
created_at: 2026-02-22 17:07:29.871000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116115377348314991
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<p>We did a tuk-tuk tour of Rome today, mostly ancient Rome sites. It was a lot of fun and we got to see a lot easily but I didn't get great photos. But here's a few!</p>


id: 116118961844955034
created_at: 2026-02-23 08:19:04.947000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116118961844955034
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<p>I've been making a point of wearing LGBT flare in the US this last year, but no one seems to notice or care. Fine! But on this trip in Rome I'm pretty sure several folks have been friendlier to me on seeing my rainbow watchband. Lots of flirty waiters.</p>


id: 116126563101182876
created_at: 2026-02-24 16:32:10.910000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116126563101182876
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<p>Visited Herculaneum today, it was astonishing. It took me 30 minutes to understand all the beautiful masonry was original, not restoration. First set of photos, some shots of spaces</p>


id: 116126604276551266
created_at: 2026-02-24 16:42:39.199000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116126604276551266
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p>And some details of art. The decorative mosaïcs are absolutely gorgeous in person. Such tiny stones! And they are right there, sometimes for you to walk on.</p>


id: 116126678048530905
created_at: 2026-02-24 17:01:24.870000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116126678048530905
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p>Proper Neapolitan pizza at <a href="https://www.50kalo.it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">50 Kalo</a>. It was very good. But this is sacrilege: I've now had enough good examples of this style of pizza to say the soft crust is really not my favorite. It gets limp very very fast, ends up being more like lasagna on the bottom. Lovely cornice though.</p>


id: 116138946638826713
created_at: 2026-02-26 21:01:28.697000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116138946638826713
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
in_reply_to_id: 116137481842142196
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<p>Musée Cocteau<br>Office de Tourisme<br>Halles Municipales<br>McDonald's<br>Audi Service<br>Lamborghini Service</p>


id: 116143554176688807
created_at: 2026-02-27 16:33:14.150000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116143554176688807
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p>I really like Genoa! A big city, industrial and with an enormous port. But also a lovely city center very dense with tiny pedestrian streets. And of course lots of monumental Italian architecture.</p>


id: 116143581297737793
created_at: 2026-02-27 16:40:07.980000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116143581297737793
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p>Genoa also has terrific food. We toured the Mercato Orientale Genova, a very impressive food market that puts anything in the US to shame. I also found some street food snacks on my walk back to the ship. The focaccia was particularly good, stuffed with some creamy salty cheese. Probably prescinsêua or maybe stracchino.</p>


id: 116148870562565773
created_at: 2026-02-28 15:05:15.761000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116148870562565773
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<p>Pleasant morning wandering around Villefranche-sur-Mer, a small and charming town. Not depicted: the <a href="https://www.theculturium.com/jean-cocteau-chapelle-saint-pierre-de-villefranche-sur-mer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Chapelle Saint Pierre</a> which is fully decorated in paintings by Jean Cocteau. It is marvelous.</p>


id: 116160015704646841
created_at: 2026-03-02 14:19:37.131000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116160015704646841
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<p>Today we are in Valencia. They have this amazing park, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turia_Garden" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Jardí del Túria</a>, built on the old riverbed of a diverted river. A 200m wide park running right through the town some 10km, a green lifeline defining the city. Also some amazing contemporary architecture.</p>


id: 116160065667463181
created_at: 2026-03-02 14:32:19.504000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116160065667463181
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<p>We did a paella cooking class today that was a lot of fun. It's a simple dish but there's a lot of important customary technique to get it right.</p>


id: 116169899743420797
created_at: 2026-03-04 08:13:15.596000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116169899743420797
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<p>Palma de Mallorca is a lovely town, at least during low season. Tidy narrow streets, a place for vacation pleasure.</p>


id: 116169911149798788
created_at: 2026-03-04 08:16:09.644000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116169911149798788
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<p>But the real jewel of Palma is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palma_Cathedral" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">La Seu</a>, a 13th c. Gothic cathedral. Impossibly huge interior vault, light and open. And beautifully restored in the early 20th century, a fantastic building.</p>


id: 116170504170870394
created_at: 2026-03-04 10:46:58.417000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116170504170870394
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username: nelson
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<p>Palamós, our last port of call. A pleasant enough fishing town on the Costa Brava but nothing special. We didn't feel like taking the long drive to see the Dali Museum so I just walked around a bit.</p>


id: 116170595495964122
created_at: 2026-03-04 11:10:11.934000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116170595495964122
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p>Our cruise ship was Silverseas' <a href="https://www.silversea.com/ships/silver-muse.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Silver Muse</a>, an ocean-going ship on the smaller side at 600ish guests. Excellent high end service, the staff has dialed in the trick of being very professional but also genuinely personal and friendly. The ship is quite nice too with a lot of smaller spaces and restaurants to break up the crowd. We are going to miss this generous hospitality.</p>


id: 116175008142480413
created_at: 2026-03-05 05:52:23.576000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116175008142480413
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JoeyYates21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Joey Yates</a> has been a highlight of this cruise. He is a performer playing evening piano. He's very talented, holding a room several times a night with sets varying from quiet instrumental, sweet vocals, and fun piano bar tunes. He writes his own material and does great patter with the crowd. He's also genuinely friendly with the guests, we enjoyed getting to know him. We ended up planning our evenings around his schedule.</p>


id: 116183306940198172
created_at: 2026-03-06 17:02:53.179000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116183306940198172
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
in_reply_to_id: 116175008142480413
content:
<p>Went to the Prado today. Overwhelming and magnificent, particularly in scale. This time I finally understood Goya. His transition from elegiac paintings like the Old Masters to these very modern and unsettling images.</p>


id: 116190108221246814
created_at: 2026-03-07 21:52:32.492000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116190108221246814
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
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<p>Excellent dinner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabada_asturiana" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fabada Asturiana</a>, Spain's answer to cassoulet. Bean stew with cuts of delicious fatty pork sausage and something like bacon. This one was served with beans and meats cooked separately which was a really nice touch, kept the flavors distinct. Very satisfying with good pork.</p>


id: 116194578996501541
created_at: 2026-03-08 16:49:31.110000+00:00
url: https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/116194578996501541
user_id: 108199162655756639
username: nelson
in_reply_to_id: 116192789368629884
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<p>Last tourist day in Madrid, a fun Tuk tuk tour of monuments and then some tapas. The bars and restaurants here are all <em>packed</em>, even early March.</p>


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A map of our cruise itinerary showing various ports of call. Rome, Naples, Menton, Genoa, Villefranche, Valencia, Mallorca, Palamos, Barcelona


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Ken with a beer and two pizzas in front of him. 4 cheeses for him, a tomato / guancale / pecorino for me.


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