Plans for today (2023)

How fast do birds fly in the city area? On 20mph it might be hard to react to a tiny black dot that's getting bigger... and I mean they're not really smart bbqing themselves in airplanes
 
We have a three panel sliding glass door that the Humming Birds bash in to regularly.
They've all survived. One little guy I thought was a goner for sure, it took him a good 2-3 hours to recover fully and then fly off.
Our neighbor has multiple feeders in the yard and this has made the Humming Birds very aggressive towards others.
They'll zoom after each other, fighting, and then slam into our glass door.
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
We have a three panel sliding glass door that the Humming Birds bash in to regularly.
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Same over here. The front of the house is basically floor to ceiling French windows. Hummingbirds regularly crash, get concussed, stagger around for a while then fly away, same as other small birds like tropical wrens.
Problem is, Mr Porky the labrador sees them, picks them up and finishes them off!
 
karadekoolaid said:
Same over here.
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Bird meets window happens a few times a year at our house as well.

Our bigger problem, though, is when we used to leave the garage door open for the dog (she had a dog flap leading out to the garage), and the hummingbirds would fly in and couldn’t figure out how to leave again.

They fly and fly and fly in a panic until finally dropping from exhaustion and expiring. Many’s the bird I coaxed out of there.
 
Good morning from Messina (Loggins sends his best wishes as well :laugh: )!

After breakfast, we’re heading out on a 6-hour tour out/up to some ruins in Taormina, with over two hours on our own, so that will be tiring but nice. They’ve continually warned us of wind gusts and lots of steps, so we’ll see.

Late reservations for supper tonight, back on the ship, just as a placeholder. We also have some rock opera thingy to attend tonight. 🎸
 
caseydog said:
Spinal Tap? :highfive:

CD
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Not quite:

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Ok I remembered booze I was out so went grabbed 4x 1 litre bottles and 2 packets biscuits for my tea in the morning. A family pie that will do us 2 meals.
$9 cheap as chips.
Not cooking tonight I'm worn out from yesterday.

Russ
 
Right now, I’m having a post-breakfast cup of tea, outside, looking at Naples over the side of the ship. Tomorrow, the cruise is done. Seems like I’ve been on here for a month or more.

MrsT is already off to Pompeii, but she changed her 9+ hour trek to a shorter 6-hour one, which considering the distance, will likely mean they just drive by the “Welcome to Pompeii - Where Ash means Cash” sign and come right back.

I’ve got a 4-hour walk-and-eat food sampling tour, but that’s another two hours away. Probably should have held off the scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes, toast and grilled tomato I just had.
 
TastyReuben said:
I’ve got a 4-hour walk-and-eat food sampling tour, but that’s another two hours away. Probably should have held off the scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes, toast and grilled tomato I just had.
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I hope you get to go to a restaurant that the locals go to for pizza, and not a tourist place. We walked into town, and we found a local place where nobody spoke English, but a Margherita pizza is easy to order.

Word of warning... they eat pizza with a knife and fork there. :ohmy:

CD
 
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caseydog said:
Word of warning... they eat pizza with a knife and fork there. :ohmy:
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So do I (and I already have)! :laugh:

Tour full of tourists, I’m fully expecting it to be “touristy” by definition, but I don’t really mind one way or the other.

The whole “tourist” thing has been interesting. Corfu, for example, someone asked the guide where to go in the city to get away from “all the tourist shops.”

Her immediate response was, “Every shop in Corfu is a tourist shop. It is our whole economy, and we embrace, not like other places that…put up with tourists, so just go everywhere, and there will be tourists and local people, all together, same shops, and don’t worry about it!”
 
caseydog said:
I hope you get to go to a restaurant that the locals go to for pizza
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We have one of the waitstaff here we really like (Paula from Peru), she’s been serving us drinks just about every night in the art deco lounge.

She just walked by and asked where MrsT was, and I told her she was on her way to Pompeii, so she gave me a load of (good-natured) crap for sending her off on her own, then when I told her I’d probably just ditch the tour I was going on early and come back to the ship and eat pizza in the slice shop on board, she almost passed out! :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
We have one of the waitstaff here we really like (Paula from Peru), she’s been serving us drinks just about every night in the art deco lounge.

She just walked by and asked where MrsT was, and I told her she was on her way to Pompeii, so she gave me a load of (good-natured) crap for sending her off on her own, then when I told her I’d probably just ditch the tour I was going on early and come back to the ship and eat pizza in the slice shop on board, she almost passed out! :laugh:
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Does that mean you will not eat pizza in Napoli? :ohmy: I hope not.

CD
 
It's a common thing in high class hospitality, they give like 5 to 10 guests to each staff and they have to make sure they feel like a VIP.

Same "strategy" is used in gyms and I fell for it multiple times, until I've heard of it. It's usually always one or two guys pretending to be your buddies and providing you with all kind of useful tipps, so you won't go to another gym. It's not bad itself, with one guy I've developed kinda like a real gym friendship.
You'll know if they just play it
 
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