Pizza, wine, and good talk with new friends are the cures for jetlag."
-Lucas
Willy Wonka had a party in my mouth.
-MacKenzie
Two parakeets: one a pale puke color, as if you've eaten too many bananas, the other blue and white, chatter in a five euro bird cage from the Italian PetsMart. The birds nuzzle each other and eat a piece of the pellet in the box under their ledge. This cage sits upon a white wicker bar matching all of the other outside furniture. The birds are the only splotch of color around, other than the three flags above the inscribed HOTEL CLITUNNO: blue flag with gold stars represents, the typical Italian flag with green, white and red bars, and the Hotel Clitunno flag with the logo from the cappuccino mug.
--The reason I love this image is because its the juxtaposition of the old and new worlds in Italy: architecture pre-1700 and the three relevant flags of this area slammed up against the modern furniture that welcomes free wi-fi users and lovers of parakeets trapped in a cheap plastic covered metal cage. This is another representation of the modernization of the ancient world, people becoming more and more attune to what is happening within the rest of the world.
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